A small Kansas county filed a lawsuit last week against major oil and chemical companies, alleging the companies made “profit-driven” decisions for decades to deceive consumers about plastics recycling’s effectiveness.
Ford County, Kansas, filed the federal suit against companies including Celanese, Chevron, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Eastman, ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell, along with industry trade association the American Chemistry Council.
The class-action lawsuit says the companies promoted plastic recycling as a solution for waste, but their actions did not improve recycling. Instead, they increased production and demand for new plastic products while increasing “issues with the remediation of plastic waste,” the suit says. ACC said the lawsuit is based on information that is “inaccurate, misleading and out of date.”
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