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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:52AM (#19673178)
Financial progress - where progress is often change for change's sake - at all cost.

Cheaper wins, more profitable wins, regardless of whether good or not. Frequently when we already knew it's not (leaded petrol, radium on watch dials etc). Far more quickly since the changes of the 1980s - deregulation, privatisation, and so forth. If it wasn't deregulated enough, move it out of sight and offshore it somewhere with weaker standards.

So I would tend to say we sacrificed the future for an extra 0.5c on the dollar.

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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by brootstrap on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:35AM (#19673426)
Yeah I think you are right about shaving costs. From the business perspective, you shave off 5 cents, times 10 million sales.. you got some serious $$$ there
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