Hey, Trolld listeners!

We are getting close to being able to release this next season.

I swear today I want to talk to you about a new report that's been released from Carbon

Tracker.

The title is quite clever.

The future is not in plastics.

We'll graduate reference there.

The report is looking at how the oil and gas industry has for quite a while now been

pointing to petrochemicals and specifically plastics as its way out when demand for oil

and gas related to transportation and various other sectors declines.

They've been hanging a lot of their hopes on petrochemicals and plastics, and what this

new report tells us is that the demand is just not there.

The oil industry is predicting that plastic use will just continue to grow at 4% a year

for several years, and they're basing a ton of investments on that.

They're also getting a ton of investment dollars based on those projections.

But what Carbon Tracker found is that in fact demand will be decreasing 4%.

That's quite a gap.

On top of being a bad investment financially, of course, plastic is quite bad for the

planet and not just on the waste side.

CO2 is emitted in the production of plastic.

Plastic is often burned emitting more emissions.

For the most part right now, plastic is being made with the emissions of fracking and being

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