stackyFACTSKeep aggressively washing out your empty yogurt cups, because the multi-billion-dollar plastics industry desperately needs you distracted.
Keep aggressively washing out your empty yogurt cups, because the multi-billion-dollar plastics industry desperately needs you distracted. Corporations pushed the 'Keep America Beautiful' recycling campaigns to successfully avoid legal bans on single-use plastics. They knew most plastic is functionally unrecyclable, but gaslighting the consumer was much cheaper than changing their highly profitable manufacturing process.
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