The Great Plastics Recycling Swindle

We are Plastics Rebellion, a sister group within XR (like Ocean Rebellion or Animal Rebellion/ HS2 Rebellion) and we are united by an understanding of the colossal threat plastics pose and a desire to do something about it. That starts with spreading the word. And something we’re really passionate about spreading the word about is that RECYCLING DOESN’T WORK. Yes, you read that right, plastics recycling is NOT an answer and this zoom will tell you why. It will tell you how recycling somehow replaced ‘reduce’ and ‘reuse’ to become the main blocker to change on plastics pollution. How the plastics industry and it’s hot cousin, the fossil fuel industry, together with Government, misled us all about how much recycling could really do. And then, when they knew nobody could really recycle plastic, how in a revolting imperialistic initiative they decided to export it to other countries even less able to cope. Come along to face facts, meet like minded people as well as experts and industry insiders, an