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The irony is that packaged goods companies generally promote and love recycling because it distracts from reducing, as in reduce, reuse, recycle. Getting people
by spodek 7y ago
The irony is that packaged goods companies generally promote and love recycling because it distracts from reducing, as in reduce, reuse, recycle. Getting people to think recycling helps, rather than mildly mitigates pollution, keeps their sales up.
Since their products are nearly all unhealthy and all pollute, "reduce" suggests we all benefit from no one buying their products at all. If they thought about how environmental concerns will affect them, they'd promote recycling wholeheartedly, not half.
- journalctl 7y agoOr they’d go out of business entirely. But that’s like asking Facebook to care about privacy: if they did, they’d cease to exist. Where’s the corporate death penalty when you need it?
- ehsankia 7y agoRelevant segment from Adam Ruins Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk
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- PretzelFisch 7y agoIt's sad when these packagers/bottlers like Coca-Cola used glass there was a great recycle program built into it. Very sad that this faded away as they changed to plastic.
- steve19 7y agoIt only faded away in the West. While staying at a hotel in Africa not long ago I was served Coke in a glass bottle over 15 years old. The bottle looked like what you would expect from a glass bottle that has been use for that long, but the Coke tasted just as good as it usually does.
- pixl97 7y agoGlass causes a massive amount of pollution via breakage and product loss, injury, and more carbon use because of its higher weight.
- PretzelFisch 7y agoAre their studies that compare glass bottle reuse to plastic bottles? Since a glass bottle just needs to be cleaned for reuse, I naively think it has less of a footprint then the plastic extraction, processing and recycling chain.
- ibudiallo 7y agoThis is a text book example from Winners Take all, by Anand Ghidharadas. They use philanthropy to look noble in the effort of creating a greener planet through recycling. And note that this effort is voluntary, from the kindness of their heart. While, they are the ones creating the problem in the first place. They'll fight any law that will stop them from creating the problem and benefiting from it.