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How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution

A flagship media workshop partnered with an industry group backed by Shell and ExxonMobil.

#EU #Journalism #Plastic #Pollution #Shell #ExxonMobil.
#Denmark #China #Finland #Eygpt #AEPW

https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/07/how-big-oil-hijacked-eu-funded-journalism-training-on-plastic-pollution/

How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution

EU grant money was used to fund a media workshop on plastic pollution that was run in partnership with a fossil fuel lobby group, DeSmog can reveal. The event, held in May, came at a crucial time – just months before the start of the latest UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. The latest round, running […]

DeSmog
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Dec 8, 2024
Five firms in #plastic #pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’
Five #oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment produced 132m tonnes of it
Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile Alliance to End Plastic Waste (#AEPW) to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by #Greenpeace
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows
Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’

Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it

The Guardian