Plastic recycling was a propaganda campaign by the plastic industry in order to fool the world into thinking that using plastics in the first place was sustainable. This is a documented fact. Maybe it wasn’t back in 2010.
That the “the problem” being Joe Beergut throwing a bottle in the trash instead of producing metric tonnes of it every day in the first place is being (was being) portrayed as “parody” is an impressive feat that one can credit to that campaign.
> Likewise, had they not been so tired, and busy, and stressed, citizens making up the equivalent of three major metropolitan areas told reporters that they probably wouldn't have driven their minivans down to the corner store.
America is designed for ridiculous urban/suburban sprawl, hideous parking lot squarage, putting commercial shops in can-only-be-driven-to outskirts of populated areas, making anti-pedestrian “Jay Walking” laws (pushed by automanufacturers), decimating poor communities by demolishing them in order to put highways through them so that commuters can still get stuck in rush hour traffic, having an embarassing public transportation system where even the train connection in the giant metropolis Philadelphia—New Your et al hasn’t improved in decades. And so on.
Central planning creates that kind of horrible infrastructure. Not minivan-driving boogeymans.
But good effort on posting that link. It managed to elevate my blood pressure a little here in the morning. A good start to the day!
