Recycling tax. Like a royalty but dedicated to the cost of recycling all waste from a product. Easier recyclables would become more profitable and shit plastics would maybe start to dwindle.
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I wish we had better tracking for all the times this happens.
It's a tactic used by corporations to avoid regulation. "We swear we'll do this stuff without big government needing to get involved" and then drop it later once people have forgotten about it. Just regulate corporations and don't believe a word they say.
They never seem to be held accountable 🙄
It's almost like western democracy is a charade and we're all living in corporate plutocracies dominated by the wealthiest multinationals and individuals.
It's probably nothing, though. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation why corporations get everything they want, quickly and almost unanimously — even when it's wildly unpopular — yet citizens have to work tirelessly for years to have a 10% chance at passing the most popular policy.
Recycling plastic is a scam
I realised this about 10 years ago when it was acknowledged that my country was shipping all of their recyclable waste to third world nations
Plastic bottles are wildly recycled here. So at least that is good.
Where is here?
Keep buying it though
Until it impacts sales it’ll stay the same.
Never ever believe companies when they make promises like “we will have x by date y”. Especially if date y is further away than maybe the end of the year. Shell also made big promises and then quietly dropped them. Of course the making of the promise came with a big PR budget. The dropping of the plans was silent. Weird how that works…
Additionally, never ever believe lawmakers saying they've reached an agreement with a business to do x by y (and therefore they don't need to pass any new regulations to actually force that business to do what they agreed to)
Oh yeah, absolutely. "self regulation" of businesses is just BS.