The lawsuit cited our story on the first federal action taken against a controversial accounting method the plastics industry uses to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products: propub.li/4dmEMVS

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EPA Rejects Use of Mass Balance Accounting for “Safer Choice” Recycled Plastic

The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy won’t allow it for any products it endorses as a “Safer Choice.”

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In June, we examined #ExxonMobil's claim that it had transformed discarded #plastic into new fruit cups through an “advanced” chemical #recycling technology. We broke down the math to show just how little recycled content winds up in products made this way.

This fruit cup example was also cited by the lawsuit.
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The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.

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