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‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MakunaHatata@lemmy.ml to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

Oh no, big oil lied to us? The same big oil that hired think tanks to gaslight us about climate change after an Exxon funded study found that climate change was real and caused primarily by humans? No! Couldn't be! Say it ain't so!