The New Coal: Plastics & Climate Change
October 2021 | Beyond Plastics
SUMMARY
Beyond Plastics’ new report reveals that the U.S. plastics industry is a major driver of our climate crisis.
Using coal-fired power plants as a benchmark, the report examines ten stages in the creation, usage, and disposal of plastics: fracking for plastics, transporting and processing fossil fuels, gas crackers, other plastics feedstock manufacturing, polymers and additives production, exports and imports, foamed plastic insulation, “chemical recycling”, municipal waste incineration, and plastics in the water.
