New report deems alliance to end plastic waste 'Sophisticated greenwashing'
Source: https://resource.co/article/new-report-deems-alliance-end-plastic-waste-sophisticated-greenwashing
Author: Alice Lang
Alliance to End Plastic Waste: Barely Credible, released today, suggests that the Alliance has failed to meet ‘negligible targets’, while its members continue to support plastic production elsewhere. Further, it defines its performance as ‘greencrowding’ – hiding in the group and moving at the speed of the slowest adopter. The report highlights that most of AEPW’s 65 member organisations are also members of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), which lobbied against establishing a negotiating framework for the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty. The two organisations have similar observable approaches to plastics waste, with the think tank pointing to the 92 per cent of AEPW members that did not publicly support the Business Statement for a Legally Binding UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution. Additionally, as eight out of the top 20 single-use plastic waste makers are members of the AEPW, both the AEPW and the ACC perceive plastic pollution as a downstream issue, focusing on recycling and recovery in their proposed solutions, rather than the supply of plastics.