{"id":443598,"date":"2026-05-11T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=443598"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:59:03","slug":"green-machine-targets-plastics-at-consumer-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=443598","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGreen Machine\u201d targets plastics at consumer expense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Woman using food film for food storage on a white table. Roll of transparent polyethylene food film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Kevin Mooney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti-trust investigations team up with pressure groups to target producers.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your casserole went stale and your mayo turned bad, along with a few pastries. But that\u2019s okay since you\u2019re taking one for the team and doing your part to save the planet! Those nasty plastics will bring about death and destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or so you\u2019ve been told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, green activists operating in the name of \u201csustainability\u201d have joined forces with corporate interests to increase consumer prices and coerce inferior products into the marketplace. All in the name of combatting plastics \u2014 and the motivations are not difficult to understand. Green activists who have lost ground on their climate agenda under President Donald Trump have repackaged that same agenda under a different name. As to the corporations, they are only too pleased to limit competition and charge consumers more, while giving off the appearance of being concerned about the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the deal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pressure groups including the U.S. Plastics Pact<\/a>, the Consumer Goods Forum, and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition<\/a>, have joined with heavy hitters like Coca-Cola, Target, Unilever, Mondelez, and Nestle to impose burdensome environmental targets. These include: arbitrary recycled-content quotas and directives to redesign everyday packaging \u2014 just to make certain products are as expensive as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has entered the fray to take on the \u201csustainability agenda.\u201d Earlier this month, he initiated an anti-trust investigation and issued Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) to the plastics trade groups and the corporations complicit with their agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement<\/a> Uthmeier said, \u201cEnvironmental groups are pressuring corporations to abandon free market principles and raise prices on consumers for products they don\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to what green activists would like the public to believe, plastics come with significant benefits<\/a> as a direct result human innovation. They keep food fresh, alleviate waste, make products lighter and therefore more affordable. They also contribute to life-saving medical devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If environmental activists turned government bureaucrats were genuinely interested in environmental improvements, they would focus on more efficient waste management, enhanced recycling infrastructure, and biodegradable innovations. But none of those solutions are on the table. Instead, the radicals push a top-down policy approach that suffocates the free market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, took down the concept of \u201csustainable development\u201d in an interview with Restoration News<\/em>, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What needs to be understood about \u2018sustainable development\u2019 is that what is being peddled is itself unsustainable. Absent government mandates, industry collusion, and interminable lawsuits, the alternatives to plastics could not stand on their own two feet. The marketplace, which reflects consumer preferences, is the best place to separate the sheep from the goats. Just as the PC vanquished the electric typewriter, and internet transmissions quashed the fax machine, superior products prevail over inferior ones. But this is an arena the anti-plastics lobby does not dare to enter. They know they will lose. Florida\u2019s attorney general sees this game for what it is, and is to be applauded for taking appropriate action. May other state AGs follow his example.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSustainability\u201d is an invention of the United Nation\u2019s Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held as part of the \u201cEarth Summit\u201d in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. The agenda aimed to spur action at the international, national, regional and local levels with the common goal of achieving \u201csustainable development,\u201d which the U.N. defines<\/a> as an approach to growth and development that satisfies contemporary needs without undermining the ability of future generations to meet their needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a time when the climate agenda is running up against scientific facts and economic realities; let\u2019s not give that agenda new life under a different name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to face facts. The war on plastics amounts to nothing more than a war on modern conveniences made possible by the innovations inherent in the free market. The green cultists would prefer humanity return to a time when casseroles and mayonnaise spoil in hours instead of days, and cell phones use inferior materials and fall apart in months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, Florida AG James Uthmeier has initiated anti-trust investigations to put an end to this nonsense in the corporate world, and to put a stake through the heart of \u201csustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at Restoration News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your casserole went stale and your mayo turned bad, along with a few pastries. But that\u2019s okay since you\u2019re taking one for the team and doing your part to save the planet! Those nasty plastics will bring about death and destruction.
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