{"id":133410,"date":"2025-09-04T23:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133410\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:41:06","slug":"trump-clears-path-for-plastic-industrys-fake-recycling-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133410\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Clears Path For Plastic Industry\u2019s Fake Recycling Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world\u2019s plastic pollution crisis. Now, amid an unprecedented lobbying push and with corporate allies ensconced in key regulatory agencies, the industries are clamoring for a nationwide buildout of chemical recycling facilities that experts say are highly polluting, disastrous for climate change, and almost entirely ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>In promotional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fW9G2vlv_WU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a> and policy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanchemistry.com\/content\/download\/7279\/file\/An-Introduction-to-Advanced-Recycling-and-the-Circular-Economy.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> fact sheets<\/a>, often accompanied by professed commitments to a \u201ccircular economy\u201d for plastic waste, these industries claim that sustainable recycling technologies \u2014 not limits on production \u2014 will solve the world\u2019s plastic pollution crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            Create a FREE account, or log in. <\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of The Lever get access to a limited number of free articles every month, breaking news alerts, and our Lever Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-133410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}