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Greenpeace Africa |
Industry Lobby the US Government to Make Africa Backslide on Plastics
The efforts by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) would undo progress that Kenya and other African states have made to address plastic pollution
The American Chemistry Council has lobbied the US government during the COVID-19 pandemic to use a US-Kenya trade deal to expand the plastics industry’s footprint across Africa. Documents obtained by Unearthed -- Greenpeace’s (https://www.Greenpeace.org/africa/en/) investigative journalism platform -- through the Freedom of Information Act separately show that the same lobby…
