Liar wars: Lying capitalists vs. consumers and the public interest

The new lie

A plastics industry propaganda campaign has flared up here. It is remaking the old lie about recycling into a new version of the lie. One can call it the Making Sustainable Change lie. 

The old lie

(but the arrow still goes in the same direction!)

These fine dark free speech proponents (liars) are the American Chemistry Council, Inc. and online at plasticsmakers.org. The website shows happy White Americans in their lovely, perfectly maintained big suburban houses enthusiastically recycling plastics in the front yard as many of us now do, but maybe with somewhat less enthusiasm and in the back yard. Not surprisingly, the website fails to mentions that after decades, about 91% of all single use plastics are still not recycled all these decades later. Inconvenient recycling data estimates like this from 2020 are 100% ignored, making that a lie of omission.

MRF = material recovery facilities, 

a/k/a/ recycling centers

What the propaganda website shows are happy things like this:

See how happy and enthusiastic they are!!

That is so hard to believe that it is unbelievable!

New ways could have been found decades ago 

if the plastics people actually wanted it

This is a lie

Advanced recycling is a lie and an illusion

The 5 actions the plastics polluters say they are calling for: 

30 by 30 sounds a lot like 

vaporware

Wait, the plastics people are the ones who

opposed regulations and social responsibility

Wait, that is evil socialist tyranny

Plastics companies are anti-regulations Republicans, 

not pro-reasonable regulations Democrats  

Wait, that call for more research sounds exactly 

like the same propaganda delay tactic the oil, coal and 

cigarette industries used for decades to block regulations and to 

deceive the public!

This smells like a dirty trick

Wait, the private sector has bitterly opposed 

calls for private sector funding for recycling

The polluters have always wanted to shift the costs 

to consumers and taxpayers 

Translation: The public is becoming angry and 

getting better informed -- we need to try to get ahead of a major

public and political backlash that would ding our profits!!

MEN, MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!!

Fire propaganda cannons! 

A propaganda cannon blast

Germaine succinctly summarizes the real situation to date:

Actual truth