Loading ...Here Come the Lawsuits? Plastic Manufacturers Could Be Held Legally Liable for Pollution
As scientific understanding and public awareness of the health and environmental harms of plastics pollution continue to mount, plastics producers and plastic packaging manufacturers could face a rising tide of lawsuits from communities and states seeking to recover damage costs, a new report suggests.
The report, released on June 26 by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), details the substantial impacts of plastic pollution and related burdens on local governments and explains how the plastics industry could be held legally responsible for these quantifiable harms and costs.
“The plastics crisis is causing harm to individuals, to communities, and to ecosystems,” said Steven Feit, a senior attorney at CIEL and co-author of the report. “There is going to be a [rising] wave of litigation in the plastics context, particularly as the evidence and the understanding of those impacts accrues.”
So poeple buy and use plastics of their own free will but it’s the manufacturer’s fault for making the products ?
I suppose it’s like eating at a restaurant — customer reads the menu and picks whatever they feel like eating. The food is professionally prepared and absolutely delicious. Customer leaves feeling fully satiated but senses that they ate too much — so they sue the restaurant for making their food taste so incredibly wonderful that they couldn’t stop eating! Yup — it was clearly the restaurant’s fault!