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The complaint has to do with the advantages of plastic recycling that the company promotedusing a “clever” marketing strategy of misleading public statements for half a century to claim that recycling was an effective way to tackle plastic pollution, which authorities believe is not true.
“Falsely promoted all plastic as recyclable, when in fact the vast majority of plastic products are not and probably cannot be recycled, either technically or economically,” the company’s statement said.
In this way, the document of the demand indicates that the objective is to “put an end” to the “deceptive practices that threaten the environment and the public” by ExxonMobil, demanding that the Court force the company to pay civil penaltiesfor the damage caused by plastic pollution in California.
California Attorney General’s Statement on ExxonMobil Lawsuit
The California attorney general said the following about the lawsuit: “Plastics are everywhere, from the deepest parts of our oceansthe highest peaks on earth, and even in our bodies, causing irreversible damage – in known and unknown ways – to our environment and potentially to our health.”
At the same time, he complained: “For decades, ExxonMobil has been misleading the public into believing that plastic recycling could solve the crisis. from plastic waste and pollution, when they clearly knew this was not possible. ExxonMobil lied to increase its unprecedented profits at the expense of our planet and possibly endangering our health.”
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