Re:The known unknowns of plastic pollution
by maxxxxx on Monday December 24, 2018 @09:52AM
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"emi-coordinated move by major corporations to reframe the plastic waste issue so that responsibility for the pollution is shifted from themselves onto the consumer"
It's a very successful strategy. They did the same with "identity theft" where banks deflected the blame for bad security practices.
Re:The known unknowns of plastic pollution
by tonyedgecombe on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:40PM
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The food industry did it with obesity by suggesting exercise is the solution to being overweight. It does seem to be a successful strategy.
For a more mainstream and negative view to balance it out, check out The Guardian’s “The plastic backlash”[0] published last month. One of the points in it I found interesting is that there was a semi-coordinated move by major corporations to reframe the plastic waste issue so that responsibility for the pollution is shifted from themselves onto the consumer (gets us busy worrying about recycling plastic rather than how we end up with that much of it in the first place).
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/13/the-plas...