Over 99% of plastic comes from fossil fuel. The plastic pollution crisis is intertwined with the climate crisis and vice versa. Learn more from the movement’s Plastics and climate campaigns.
Yet ...the federal and state cleanup threshold is 1,000 ppt, so there is no legal requirement for US or Ohio EPA to test and remove that soil.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/norfolk-southern-derailment-east-palestine-ohio-carcinogenic-chemical-levels
