So, they lied when they didn't even need to. Doesn't that make the lie that much worse?
Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
by jariel on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:01PM
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They marketed their industry, just as every industry does.
They promoted something they understood to be a fiction because they knew it would offset reasonable concerns about their product. If you think that’s the core of marketing then we have very different ideas about what good marketing is.
Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
by knappe on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @06:41PM
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Give this episode of planet money a listen: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land
It discusses extensively the knowledge the petro chemical lobby knew about the ability to recycle plastic and how little could really be recycled.
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Plastics are an absolutely incredible technology, to the point of revolutionary. They are used absolutely everywhere, in everything.
Nobody needed to be convinced of the utility of plastics, it's one of the most utilitarian things ever created.