To date Rethink Energy has not bothered itself with plastics, although expecting to have to address the complex industry sooner or later, but a report out this week, means it has to become a new focus. The report comes from Bennington College in Vermont, USA and it gives one of the best single-document educations on how the oil and gas industry supports plastics and how the market is growing unchecked, on track to overtake coal as the industry most likely to ruin IPCC targets for greenhouse gasses. The report starts off claiming that by 2030 the US led industry will contribute more to climate change emissions than coal plants – but in a way, that’s not very surprising – coal…