1. Profit 2. Shifts blame to the consumer -- if you don't recycle it's you who's bad and destroying the planet 3. Plastic is cheap. Alternatives are more expens

1. Profit 2. Shifts blame to the consumer -- if you don't recycle it's you who's bad and destroying the planet 3. Plastic is cheap. Alternatives are more expensive and less convenient. So let's try to fix the symptom instead of the root cause.