California sued ExxonMobil Monday, alleging it deceived the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the global plastic pollution crisis… Several environmental nonprofit groups say Exxon’s misleading claims have led to more plastic use and that has damaged California’s waterways.
“SF bay has been incredibly inundated with plastic pollution over the decades. Seven-trillion tiny pieces enter the Bay every single year and that is a lot of plastic pollution that we can never actually clean up because you can’t clean up microplastics out of the Bay,” said Sejal Chocksi-Chughm, executive director of SF Baykeeper.
SF Baykeeper says Exxon is a major polluter and that it needs to stop lying to the public about how much recycling actually happens.
Source: KGO-ABC7