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> Less waste is almost always more profitable …something something 3M …something something oil industry …something something tobacco industry, pesticides, fast

• roenxi 3y ago
  If you ban pesticides and the oil industry, Europe would be depopulated through famine. Almost everyone would starve. If enough food to make it to the end of the year is on the list of non-essential items then yeah I suppose there is a lot of waste out there. > factory pollution Where does the stuff some from without factories? Are you proposing a world where people do without whitegoods? Nobody knows how to run a factory that makes affordable goods in bulk with little pollution. The market is optimising for the most people being able to afford to live comfortably. The equilibrium that minimises waste at all costs is a world with no humans.
  • unaindz 3y ago
    The smartphone industry right now is more comparable to fast fashion, the more they sell the better and if you can't fix their products nor do they receive updates after a year you need to buy a new one. So fast fashion but you can't even patch your pants if they have a hole. > factory pollution If companies had to pay for the pollution they produce they would have to raise prices and/or find a way to produce the same while polluting less. Enforcement in a globalized world is the issue.