California's attorney general says we consume the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic every week. He's going after ExxonMobil to investigate the cause of what officials call a plastic pollution crisis.
The State of California is going after an oil company as it investigates the cause of what officials call aWith Playa del Rey as the sunny beach backdrop, California's Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office will subpoena ExxonMobil. Bonta said for decades, the petroleum industry deliberately deceived the public about the dangers of plastic and falsely claimed that the materials can mostly be recycled.
Bonta said more than 3 million tons of plastic are produced annually, eventually breaking down into tiny plastic particles. "Every week, we consume the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic through the water we drink, the food we eat and the air we breathe. Each of us consuming more than 40 pounds of plastic over our lifetimes," Bonta said.
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