Fossil fuel industry sees the future in hard-to-recycle plastic
(WorldNews Environment)

Lasse Olofsson/Shutterstock Plastic pollution and the climate crisis are two inseparable parts of the same problem, though they aren´t treated as such. Many countries have implemented plastic bag charges and plastic straw bans while action to phase out fossil fuels lags far behind, due in part to the inertia of the huge oil and gas companies that dominate the sector. An investigation by The Guardian recently found that just 20 of these firms are responsible for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 1965. How will they adapt as fossil fuel demand wanes with the rise of renewable energy and battery power? The answer is plastic - and that shift is already well underway. Most of the...