Manufacturing Industry

BREAKING DOWN GREENPEACE SCAM

Plastics News, June, 1998

On March 14, 1990, in Washington, Greenpeace held a press conference to announce and introduce its report called "Breaking Down the Degradable Plastics Scam." The room was filled with over 60 news reporters and nine videographers from general, environmental and business news organizations. Also attending were five representatives of the Degradable Plastics (now Polymers) Council, part of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.

Socialist erstwhile "educator" and Greenpeace hack Barry Commoner led the plastics-bashing. It halted when one audience member asked him, "Mr. Commoner, isn't this really just a simple dispute between the paper bag industry and the plastic bag industry, and isn't what really bothers you the fact that consumers have shown an increasing...

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