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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Dharna Noor

Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.
Plastic producers may be breaking public-nuisance, product-liability and consumer-protection laws. Photograph: Rich Carey/Shutterstock

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.

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