Alliance to End Plastic Pollution

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Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’

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Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) was set up in 2019 by a group of companies which include ExxonMobil , Dow , Shell , TotalEnergies and ChevronPhillips .

They promised to divert 15m tonnes of plastic waste from the environment in five years to the end of 2023 .

New data reveals the five companies alone produced 132m tonnes .

The amount of plastic produced is likely to be an underestimate as it only covers two of the most widely used polymers; polyethylene (PE) and PP .

AEPW was created in 2019 to counter the demonisation’ of plastic and the growing calls for bans on plastic items.

The alliance paid Weber Shandwick $ 5.6 m for its work in 2019 , according to US tax returns.

But documents filed in California in September argue ExxonMobil has deceived the public for 50 years about the recyclability of plastic.

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