> Why do companies continue to waste money on useless swag? Marketing, attracting talent, reminding people you care about your company exist. It has a use and

> Why do companies continue to waste money on useless swag? Marketing, attracting talent, reminding people you care about your company exist. It has a use and it's cheap. > What can be done to have companies think about the waste they are producing from swag? Tell them plastic recycling is a scam perpetrated by the oil business and our weakly-spined governments and just a small portion of plastics get actually recycled; we end up eating and contaminating the environment with most of it. Once this issue picks up enough steam maybe companies will stop with the useless gadgets in order to show they care about the environment for virtue points.