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"They lied about the recycling potential to encourage widespread adoption of plastics." ? Plastics are an absolutely incredible technology, to the point of re
by jariel 6y ago
"They lied about the recycling potential to encourage widespread adoption of plastics."
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Plastics are an absolutely incredible technology, to the point of revolutionary. They are used absolutely everywhere, in everything.
Nobody needed to be convinced of the utility of plastics, it's one of the most utilitarian things ever created.
- josho 6y agoSo, they lied when they didn't even need to. Doesn't that make the lie that much worse?
- jariel 6y agoThey marketed their industry, just as every industry does.
- jolux 6y agoThey promoted something they understood to be a fiction because they knew it would offset reasonable concerns about their product. If you think that’s the core of marketing then we have very different ideas about what good marketing is.
- knappe 6y agoGive this episode of planet money a listen: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land It discusses extensively the knowledge the petro chemical lobby knew about the ability to recycle plastic and how little could really be recycled.