It’s really simple. Would you rather sort through trash to get second hand materials for your product that you can’t even use for things like food packaging, or buy the clean plastic that is a byproduct from oil refining that they have so much of they pay you to take away from them?
I’m not saying this as a defense. But it shows why capitalist corporations will always choose one thing over the other unless some force makes them.
It’s really simple. Would you rather sort through trash to get second hand materials for your product that you can’t even use for things like food packaging, or buy the clean plastic that is a byproduct from oil refining that they have so much of they pay you to take away from them?
I’m not saying this as a defense. But it shows why capitalist corporations will always choose one thing over the other unless some force makes them.
Yes, as long as consumers continue to pick the shiny new plastics that corporations, focus groups, & marketers expect or convince them to pick.