As the private transportation sector shifts focus to batteries, biofuels, and green hydrogen, fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new avenues of revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and in plastics in particular. That’s bad news for a world already swimming – literally – in plastic pollution. Product manufacturers and other upstream forces could reverse the petrochemical trend, but only if they – along with policymakers, voters, and consumers – continue to push for real change beyond the business-as-usual strategy of only advocating for post-consumer recycling….

https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/600-million-metric-tons-plastic/