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The Plastics Industry Searches for a ‘Circular’ Way to Cut Plastic Waste and Make More Plastics

Environmentalists smell a ruse, saying the industry’s talk of “advanced recycling” is nothing more than a fancy approach to a dirty business, incinerating plastics.

By James Bruggers

Nick Vafiadis, the vice president of plastics for Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, the Dow Jones Company, speaks at his company's plastics conference known as GPS + PEPP. Credit: James Bruggers
An ExxonMobil sign is seen on a gas station on October 25, 2018 in Gutenberg New Jersey. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

An Oil Giant’s Wall Street Fall: The World is Sending the Industry Signals, but is Exxon Listening?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

In Letter to Obama, Leading US Businesses Call for Leadership at Copenhagen

By SolveClimate Staff

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