How industry ‘environmental’ group helped foil California’s plastics crackdown

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/How-a-plastics-environmental-group-helped-14483578.php

Californians for Recycling and the Environment, as the nonprofit calls itself, campaigned against the legislation in social media posts and through lobbyists. The group said that if the bills to require that far less plastic go to landfills passed, “Californians (would) have to prepare for a future without toothpaste, baby formula and dog food.”