Son elli yılda üretilen tüm plastiklerin sadece %9’u gerçekten geri dönüştürüldü. Dünya genelinde her dakika bir milyon plastik şişe satılıyor. Ve uzmanlar diyor ki, 2050’ye kadar plastik üretimi üç katına çıkacak.
Bu sadece bir başarısızlık hikayesi değil. Bu, dünyanın en büyük şirketlerinin elli yıldır sürdürdüğü milyarlarca dolarlık bir aldatmacının hikayesi.
📊 İSTATİSTİK KAYNAKLARI
EPA – Plastics: Material-Specific Data
• https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/plastics-material-specific-data
Science Advances – Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700782
OECD – Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly
• https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/plastics.html
World Economic Forum – The New Plastics Economy
• https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-new-plastics-economy-rethinking-the-future-of-plastics/
UN Environment Programme – Single-Use Plastics
• https://www.unep.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/
🏛️ TARİHSEL BELGELER VE ARŞİVLER
Syracuse University Archives – Industry Documents 1974
• https://digitalcollections.syr.edu/ (Plastik endüstrisi belgeleri)
NPR Röportaj – Larry Thomas
• https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land (Planet Money podcast bölümü)
🏭 ENDÜSTRİ RAPORLARI
Plastics Industry Association – Size and Impact Report
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200911195852/https://www.plasticsindustry.org/sites/default/files/SizeAndImpactReport_Summary.pdf
🌍 KARBON AYAK İZİ VE İKLİM
Mashable – The carbon footprint sham
• https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham
Guardian – Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
MIT News – Leaving our mark
• https://news.mit.edu/2008/footprint-tt0416
Carbon Disclosure Project – Carbon Majors Report 2017
• https://cdn.cdp.net/cdp-production/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf
🚗 GREENWASHING ÖRNEKLERİ
BBC – Volkswagen: The scandal explained
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772
Changing Markets Foundation – Synthetics Anonymous
• https://changingmarkets.org/report/synthetics-anonymous-fashion-brands-addiction-to-fossil-fuels/
♻️ ÇEVRE VE SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK
Ellen MacArthur Foundation – Towards a Circular Economy
• https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/towards-the-circular-economy-vol-1-an-economic-and-business-rationale-for-an
Zero Waste Europe – Circular Economy Reports
• https://zerowasteeurope.eu/library/
The Story of Stuff Project
• https://storyofstuff.org/
🎥 ARAŞTIRMA VE BELGESEL KAYNAKLARI
PBS Frontline – Plastic Wars (Belgesel)
• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/
NPR Planet Money – Waste Land (Ses)
• https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
• https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
📰 HABER KAYNAKLARI
Reuters – Special Report: How the plastics industry is fighting the single-use backlash
• https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/
The Guardian – Plastic recycling myth
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-recycling-landfills
Associated Press – Advanced recycling: Plastic crisis solution or distraction?
• https://apnews.com/article/science-united-states-providence-business-climate-and-environment-b9f202a703ea7fa4231053d544b3266e