The problem with all of these activist groups and the progressive ones especially, is that you just cannot please them. They claim to have a stated goal of improving our climate, or not polluting the earth and so on.
Somebody comes along and does what these groups claim they want done; you think they would be happy right? You have not been paying attention.
ExxonMobil has long been in the plastic recycling business. They have recycled 60 million pounds of plastic already. They are spending billions of dollars to build a plastic recycling plant in Texas. The plant will use technology known as advanced recycling, which ExxonMobil claims can recycle all plastics into usable products.
California's Attorney General, Rob Bonta, is suing the company for deceptive advertising essentially. Bonta Is being backed by the Center for Climate Integrity, a Rockefeller Foundation group that is pushing the green agenda, along with Beyond Plastics, an anti-fossil fuel group found by Judith Enck.
Judith Enck especially hates the claims that 100% of plastics can be recycled because that would encourage people to continue using plastic products. She calls the claims pseudoscience and says not all plastics can be recycled. Bonta agrees with the latter claim but said the more deceptive part of ExxonMobil's claims is the end use of the products created by the recycling program.
The company's process breaks plastic polymers down to the molecular level. These are then processed and can be used to create more plastic or other products such as jet fuel. And that last part is what Bonta and the Center for Climate Integrity have a problem with. Bonta was speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box about the lawsuit. Becky Quick, a cohost, asked him what the problem was because this is, as she understands it, what everybody wants recycling plastics. His response was "it's not like aluminum can recycling which melts down aluminum cans and turns them back into aluminum cans." That's a claim which is factually untrue because the aluminum is used for much more than cans. But he said it deceives some people who have altruistic motivations for recycling plastic and wouldn't participate if they knew that jet fuel was being made and putting pollutants that can destroy the climate into the air.
In a surprising and rare moment of holding somebody accountable, co-host Joe Kerna responded to Bonta's statement that we shouldn't have jet fuel by saying, "you flew here on a jet plane, didn't you?" Bonta's only reply was, "we travel." He almost sounds like Kamala Harris, when caught in a lie or a hypocritical statement, deflect.
Liberal do gooders just can't stand it when free market capitalism allows a company to come in and create a solution to a problem and make money off of it. Don't get me wrong, they love making money off of creating problems and allegedly coming up with solutions. Occasionally they will like it when someone like a Rockefeller can make money off of the solution because they're the right kind of capitalist. It never was and never will be about finding an actual solution. Because if a solution is found, these groups are no longer needed and the flow of money from the government and other entities stops.
In case you are wondering, Exxon Mobil said, at this point there is a small percentage of plastics that are not economically feasible to recycle. But they are working on technology and have made significant advancements into solving that problem.