The Plastic Plot - A Cunning Chemical Caper!

Sources:

Keep America Beautiful 

• https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Keep_America_Beautiful

• https://kab.org/about/partners/

• https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/11/09/crying-indian-ad-fooled-environmental-movement/ideas/essay/

Tobacco Industry

• https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=rjbc0069

• https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=pggh0078

• https://publicintegrity.org/environment/philip-morris-uses-chemical-industry-consultants-to-perpetuate-light-cigarette-myth/

• Cigarette butts and plastic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/cigarettes-story-of-plastic

Corporate Recycling Goals 

• https://www.coca-cola.ca/responsible-business/world-without-waste

• https://www.nestle.com/csv/global-initiatives/zero-environmental-impact/packaging-plastic-pollution

• https://www.pepsico.com/sustainability/esg-topics-a-z#packaging

• McDonald’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/02/mcdonalds-trashing-its-foam-containers/e1ac982a-8058-4308-8d6f-fff1bef20ec5/?utm_term=.de54cc7b3184

Laredo, Plastic Bags, and Lobbying

• Broken, Season 1, Episode 4: “Recycling Sham” (Available on Netflix. Watch the series trailer here)

• A Plastic Ocean (Documentary - also available on Netflix)

• https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/01/13/plastic-bags-have-lobbyists-and-theyre-still-winning-1248888

• https://plastics.americanchemistry.com/Education-Resources/Publications/Impact-of-Plastics-Packaging.pdf

• https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land 

• https://www.npr.org/transcripts/750864036

Plastic Production Policies

• https://e360.yale.edu/features/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-importing-waste-has-stalled-global-recycling

• https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/

• A Plastic Ocean (Documentary - also available on Netflix)

Plastic, Recycling, and the Environment 

• https://www.npr.org/series/684530164/the-plastic-tide

Growth of Plastic Production 

• https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782?ijkey=8a4d9e091515bf3d2427ce25c9f06afe0793f5f7&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha