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The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first ever federal action against a system that misleads consumers about the recycled content in plastic products.

A ProPublica investigation in June showed how the plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method called mass balance to advertise plastic products as 20% or 30% recycled even if they physically contain less than 1% recycled content.

It involves a number shuffle, done only on paper, that inflates the advertised recycledness of one product by reducing the advertised recycledness of another, often less lucrative, product. Done purely for marketing, it has been criticized by environmentalists as a greenwashing tactic.

According to an EPA policy released this month, companies that want the federal government’s stamp of approval for their sustainable products can no longer use such convoluted math.

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[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

This is refreshing news. Thank you for posting this!

[–] calabast@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is the word "Biden" in the title?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess because it's technically under Bidens pervue as the executive branch. But you're right its not necessary to include.

[–] calabast@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I understand. Look I'm as orange-man-bad as they come, but I'm tired of both sides trying to tie things to a president that they didn't actually have anything to do with. (And with project 2025 I know that Trump may actually decimate the EPA, the Chevron ruling already did incalculable damage to all of the agencies. And yet I STILL don't want to read about how "Biden's EPA" did something he probably wasn't even aware of.)

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

Industries should not be allowed to make regulations for themselves. See banking, investment, tobacco, aviation, insurance,............ Etc