Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?

The Plastic Pollution Coalition report documents how the plastics industry supplies free lesson plans, worksheets, experiments and a traveling “PlastiVan” program that portray plastics as essential while downplaying health, environmental and climate harms. Case studies show trade groups and Dow-linked curricula framing recycling as the solution despite a 9% global recycling rate, and using technical jargon to present industry ideology as STEM education.