Big Oil wants you to think it’s recycling plastic. EPA says “Hold on a minute”

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The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first ever federal action against a system that misleads consumers about the recycled content in plastic products. By Lisa Song Propublica A ProPublica investigation in June showed how the plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method called mass balance to advertise plastic products as 20% or 30% recycled even if […]

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