Summary
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, led by ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies, and ChevronPhillips, is under criticism for producing 132 million tonnes of plastic in five years—1,000 times more than the 118,500 tonnes it cleaned up.
Established in 2019 to combat plastic pollution, the alliance quietly abandoned its ambitious cleanup target.
Critics, including Greenpeace, accuse AEPW of greenwashing and lobbying against production caps in a proposed global treaty on plastic pollution.
Environmentalists argue that reducing virgin plastic production is the only sustainable solution.
We’ll all be long dead before anyone forces these companies to actually do something. As long as they can simply invest in some political sock puppets and only promise to do something, they won’t do anything.