California Sues ExxonMobil for Deceiving Public About Recycling Plastics
The global fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil took out a 12-page editorial advertisement in Time magazine back in 1989 titled “The Urgent Need to Recycle.” The ad called on readers to imagine recycled plastic material used in idyllic ways – the material for a dock, for example, or the carpet in a young couple’s first home — painting recycling technology as a smart solution to plastic waste.