{"id":17351,"date":"2024-11-27T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17351"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:07:48","slug":"inside-the-plastic-industrys-battle-to-win-over-hearts-and-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17351","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Plastic Industry\u2019s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a \u201ctide of anti-plastic sentiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Paid influencers on TikTok. An infomercial hosted by Dennis Quaid. Pushback against the Olympics\u2019 single-use plastic ban.<\/p>\n

A trove of documents leaked from an influential industry group shows how some of the world\u2019s largest petrochemical and plastics companies have been waging a campaign to push back against a \u201ctide of anti-plastic sentiment\u201d \u2014 especially among young people concerned about the environment.<\/p>\n

The industry group, the National Association for PET Container Resources, or NAPCOR, worked to deliberately obscure its connection to the campaign and make its content \u201cauthentic and from the creators\u2019 viewpoints,\u201d the documents show.<\/p>\n

PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic used to make single-use soda bottles and clamshell containers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The corporate strategizing laid out in the documents provides a behind-the-scenes look at a battle being waged over the future of plastic. Nations are gathering in Busan, South Korea this week to hammer out details of a global plastic treaty<\/a> that might tackle pollution at its source, by limiting its production \u2014 an approach that the plastic industry has vehemently opposed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a paid partnership video on TikTok, an influencer misleadingly claimed that \u201cPET bottles are a closed-loop, zero-waste system.\u201d<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a \u201ctide of anti-plastic sentiment.\u201dPaid influencers on TikTok. An infomercial hosted by Dennis Quaid. Pushback against the Olympics\u2019 single-use plastic ban.A trove of documents leaked from an influential industry group shows how some of the world\u2019s largest petrochemical and plastics companies have been waging a campaign to push back against a \u201ctide of anti-plastic sentiment\u201d \u2014 especially among young people concerned about the environment.The industry group, the National Association for PET Container Resources, or NAPCOR, worked to deliberately obscure its connection to the campaign and make its content \u201cauthentic and from the creators\u2019 viewpoints,\u201d the documents show.PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic used to make single-use soda bottles and clamshell containers.The corporate strategizing laid out in the documents provides a behind-the-scenes look at a battle being waged over the future of plastic. Nations are gathering in Busan, South Korea this week to hammer out details of a global plastic treaty that might tackle pollution at its source, by limiting its production \u2014 an approach that the plastic industry has vehemently opposed.In a paid partnership video on TikTok, an influencer misleadingly claimed that \u201cPET bottles are a closed-loop, zero-waste system.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17353,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17354,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17351\/revisions\/17354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}