Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws (June 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution Article 

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/plastics-companies-blocking-mitigation-efforts
https://www.ciel.org/reports/make-plastic-polluters-pay/

Companies have spent decades obstructing efforts to take on the plastics crisis and may have breached a host of US laws, a new report argues.

The research from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) details the widespread burdens that plastic pollution places on US cities and states, and argues that plastic producers may be breaking public-nuisance, product-liability and consumer-protection laws.

It comes as cities such as Baltimore have begun to file claims against plastic manufacturers
 
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