But when Leebrick tried to tell people the truth about burying all the other plastic, she says people didn't want to hear it. And as he thinks back to those years he spent in conference rooms with top executives from oil and plastic companies, what occurs to him now is something he says maybe should have been obvious all along. "The symbols start showing up on the containers," he explains. I think the lines are fairly clearly drawn there.
Industry documents from this time show that just a couple of years earlier, starting in 1989, oil and plastics executives began a quiet campaign to lobby almost 40 states to mandate that the symbol appear on all plastic — even if there was no way to economically recycle it.
He lost money on them, he says, but the aluminum, paper and steel from his regular business helped offset the costs. “But they want that whether it’s listening or reading.”. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. "These are products the world needs and continues to need," he says. He says what he saw was an industry that didn't want recycling to work. He knew right away what was happening. If a listener reports that they are unable to hear your stream in the NPR app, there are a few tests that you can run to see what the issue may be. ... We've pioneered the country's largest, most comprehensive plastic recycling program to help plastic fill valuable uses and roles.". "They were trying to keep their products on the shelves," Liesemer says. The industry created a special group called the Council for Solid Waste Solutions and brought a man from DuPont, Ron Liesemer, over to run it. “We have a newsroom, we have a programming team, and we have two apps kind of created for the way we are organizing. Company officials say they see a bright future for their products as demand for plastic continues to rise. When asked how Chevron Phillips will recycle 100% of the plastic it makes, he doesn't hesitate. — like we’ve been having the same circular conversation for years now. "They knew that the infrastructure wasn't there to really have recycling amount to a whole lot.". Because if the job is to sell as much oil as you possibly can, any amount of recycled plastic is competition. "We just don't. "We're very optimistic about future growth.". Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon.
Required fields are marked *. "There is no recovery from obsolete products," it says. "I did what the industry wanted me to do, that's for sure," he says. rustypixel, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:30 PM, in forum: Android Apps & Games.
Fix recycling is the industry's message too, says Steve Russell, the industry's recent spokesman. Stations now notify NPR when they want their podcasts to be featured on NPR One. It may have sounded like an environmentalist's message, but the ads were paid for by the plastics industry, made up of companies like Exxon, Chevron, Dow, DuPont and their lobbying and trade organizations in Washington. Remote Audio Data aims to help podcast creators and advertisers better understand their audiences. NPR One is ready when you want to listen. 8 comments . NPR now offers two apps: the audio-focused NPR One, which merges national and local newscasts, news segments and podcasts into a personalized stream; and the eponymous NPR app, which presents written news stories along with a live station stream and on-demand audio. Dannydet Aug 30, 2020 at 9:33 PM. Liesemer says he started as many programs as he could and hoped for the best. NPR app for iPhone 5 not working.
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She could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. Recycling plastic wasn't making economic sense: There were too many different kinds of plastic, hundreds of them, and they can't be melted down together. Replies: 1 Views: 73. "Millions of dollars.". The app could include station podcasts and livestreams, and NPR is looking into creating “enhanced editorial tools” that could give stations more control over the app’s content, Lenahan said. In response, industry officials told NPR that the code was only ever meant to help recycling facilities sort plastic and was not intended to create any confusion.
Many of the industry's old documents are housed in libraries, such as the one on the grounds of the first DuPont family home in Delaware. And if there was a sign of this future, it's a brand-new chemical plant that rises from the flat skyline outside Sweeny, Texas. Analysts now expect plastic production to triple by 2050. Starting in the 1990s, the public saw an increasing number of commercials and messaging about recycling plastic. All plastic must first go through a recycling facility like this one, but only a fraction of the plastic produced actually winds up getting recycled. So began the plastics industry's $50 million-a-year ad campaign promoting the benefits of plastic. "I had no staff, but I had money," Liesemer says. hide caption. Laura Sullivan/NPR
“When you talk to any user of the NPR digital properties, they will tell you that they want that national-local blend, which is what you get in an NPR One experience,” Lenahan said. Current (https://current.org/2019/10/to-help-confused-users-npr-will-consolidate-its-two-apps-into-one/). Few of these projects actually turned much plastic into new things. Even though we were all dedicated, it still was like, can we keep fighting a battle like this on and on and on from this massive industry that clearly has no end in sight of what they're able to do and willing to do to keep their image the image they want.". "That's what they were focused on. Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. for buyers. But it's not valuable, and it never has been. Even as the ads played and the projects got underway, Thomas and Freeman say industry officials wanted to get recycling plastic into people's homes and outside on their curbs with blue bins.
Reviewed By Autumn. "I remember this is one of those exchanges that sticks with me 35 years later or however long it's been ... and it was what we need to do is ... advertise our way out of it. "Recycling has to get more efficient, more economic," he says. NPR hopes to start testing versions of the app by May. Share what you like and skip what you don't. Larry Thomas, the former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, worked side by side with top oil and plastics executives. He was a vice president of the lobbying group. They reported having the same problem. I got fed up with the amount of clicks it takes on the NPR app just to get to the hourly news, then to queue most recent content. At this time, Thomas had a co-worker named Lew Freeman. If that update doesn't resolve it, uninstalling / reinstalling will. Chevron Phillips Chemical's new $6 billion plastic manufacturing plant rises from the skyline in Sweeny, Texas. Your email address will not be published. A launch date has not been finalized. Smith said what it did was make all plastic look recyclable. Cookies help us deliver our Services. "If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment," Larry Thomas, former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry Association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in Washington, D.C., told NPR. "The image of plastics is deteriorating at an alarming rate," he wrote. But how do we get there if stations feel no incentive to market the app?
All of them were now stamped with the triangle of arrows — known as the international recycling symbol — with a number in the middle. Dow and Huntsman's highly publicized plan to recycle plastic in national parks made it to seven out of 419 parks before the companies cut funding. That was the idea thrown out.".
Larry Thomas, Lew Freeman and Ron Liesemer, former industry executives, helped oil companies out of the first plastic crisis by getting people to believe something the industry knew then wasn't true: That most plastic could be and would be recycled. Back then, Smith ran a recycling business. "The feeling was the plastics industry was under fire — we got to do what it takes to take the heat off, because we want to continue to make plastic products," he says. Recycling plastic is "costly," it says, and sorting it, the report concludes, is "infeasible. Your email address will not be published. Laura Sullivan/NPR “We can do better than this,” Lenahan said. Thomas took over back in the late 1980s, and back then, plastic was in a crisis. In all that time, less than 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled. And inside one of them is a report written in April 1973 by scientists tasked with forecasting possible issues for top industry executives. Facebook app - Notification sound. Elements of both apps will be merged into one using the NPR One technology that combines local and national content. There was too much plastic trash. "But my personal views didn't always jibe with the views I had to take as part of my job.". New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The NPR load screen appears, but does nothing, then crashes.
On the other hand, new plastic is cheap.
Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. From their point of view, why would we encourage our listeners to use an app that has no revenue opportunities for us (other than membership leads)? "It's pure manipulation of the consumer," he says. Some station leaders at the session raised concerns about local sponsorship on digital platforms.
But plastic today is harder to sort than ever: There are more kinds of plastic, it's cheaper to make plastic out of oil than plastic trash and there is exponentially more of it than 30 years ago. Review title of Autumn My FAVORITE App! Wondering if anyone else is having that problem. Rather than an app that just siphons listeners away from the stations that pay the vast majority of NPR’s expenses? Listen to the episode here. But Becker says Chevron Phillips has a plan: It will recycle 100% of the plastic it makes by 2040. This story is part of a joint investigation with the PBS series Frontline that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31 on PBS. Laura Sullivan/NPR Smith went out to the piles of plastic and started flipping over the containers.