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Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) by josho on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:05PM (#24486120)
So, they lied when they didn't even need to. Doesn't that make the lie that much worse?
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Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) by jariel on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:01PM (#24486671)
They marketed their industry, just as every industry does.
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Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018) by jolux on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:13PM (#24486757)
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.
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