Plastic recycling was never a real idea. It was a lie, a strategy to avoid regulation, which is a different thing entirely, and Richard Wiles has Big Oil's own memos saying so. Same PR BS as the climate lying. And this one ends up inside all of us.
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![Editor's note from Bulwark: 1
Editor’s note (September 3, 2026, 1:10 p.m. EDT): In a response to this review posted to social media, Gil Durán, author of The Nerd Reich, has highlighted that the reviewer, Jacob Bruggeman, is affiliated with the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). Durán mentions FAI in his book, once, in a sentence that reads as follows: “This merging of tech and far-right networks—hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation, which Inc. later described as ‘the foundation shaping the tech right’—seemed like a live test of [Balaji] Srinivasan’s theory.” Bruggeman’s affiliation with FAI is an unpaid, nonresident fellowship (in other words, it is not his day job), and while it was mentioned in his byline beneath this review, we should have made a point of additionally disclosing it in a footnote like this.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/bafkreibcuvk2l4qvhmrnxzd3edhu6ncq3ljzmn42hpcijr6imlkimnowle)
