Show threadPeter RileyAug 7, 2025

@MBergmann

#Dow #ExxonMobil #BASF #ChevronPhillips #Shell #SABIC and INEOS expanded plastic production capacity by 1.4 million tonnes… Dow earned US$5.1 billion from plastics, sending at least 21 lobbyists into treaty negotiations.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/77716/greenpeace-activists-paint-geneva-streets-black-to-call-out-big-oils-chokehold-on-global-plastic-treaty-talks-demand-un-kicks-out-fossil-fuel-lobbyists/

#fossilfuels #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Plastics #Pollution #Treaty

Greenpeace activists paint Geneva streets black to call out Big Oil’s chokehold on Global Plastic Treaty talks, demand UN kicks out fossil fuel lobbyists - Greenpeace International

Greenpeace activists created a symbolic trail of black oil on the entrance of the Palais des Nations to call out the undue influence of the fossil fuel industry in the negotiations.

Greenpeace International
Show threadPeter RileyAug 7, 2025

@primonatura

#Dow #ExxonMobil #BASF #ChevronPhillips #Shell #SABIC and INEOS expanded plastic production capacity by 1.4 million tonnes… Dow earned US$5.1 billion from plastics, sending at least 21 lobbyists into treaty negotiations.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/77716/greenpeace-activists-paint-geneva-streets-black-to-call-out-big-oils-chokehold-on-global-plastic-treaty-talks-demand-un-kicks-out-fossil-fuel-lobbyists/

#fossilfuels #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Plastics #Pollution #Treaty

Greenpeace activists paint Geneva streets black to call out Big Oil’s chokehold on Global Plastic Treaty talks, demand UN kicks out fossil fuel lobbyists - Greenpeace International

Greenpeace activists created a symbolic trail of black oil on the entrance of the Palais des Nations to call out the undue influence of the fossil fuel industry in the negotiations.

Greenpeace International
Show threadPeter RileyAug 7, 2025

@infobeautiful

Plastic Politicians ?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-07/un-plastics-treaty-negotiations-us-australia-odds/105622490

#Dow #ExxonMobil #BASF #ChevronPhillips #Shell #SABIC and INEOS expanded plastic production capacity by 1.4 million tonnes… Dow earned US$5.1 billion from plastics, sending at least 21 lobbyists into treaty negotiations.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/77716/greenpeace-activists-paint-geneva-streets-black-to-call-out-big-oils-chokehold-on-global-plastic-treaty-talks-demand-un-kicks-out-fossil-fuel-lobbyists/

#fossilfuels #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Plastics #Pollution

Australia and the US are at odds on a plastics treaty, with last-ditch negotiations underway

Final negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution are underway in Geneva. But with the United States lining up in opposition to Australia and about 100 other nations, hopes are dimming for the most ambitious proposals to cut plastic production.

ABC News
Show threadPeter RileyNov 27, 2024

Probably not satire alas

“Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW)” set up in 2019 by #fossilfuels companies #ExxonMobil #Dow #Shell #TotalEnergies and #ChevronPhillips (still) the world’s biggest producers of #plastic pollution for profit.

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
beSpacificNov 21, 2024
5 firms in #plastic #pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’ 5 #oil and #chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from #environment produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds #fossilfuels #oceans - two types of plastic; #polyethylene (#PE) and PP (#polypropylene) in five years – more than 1,000 times the weight of the 118,500 tonnes of waste plastic the alliance has removed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows #ExxonMobil #Dow #Shell #TotalEnergies #ChevronPhillips
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