Adam Ruins Everything - The Corporate Conspiracy to Blame You for Their Trash
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in recycling and plastic-waste threads as an entertaining take on corporate blame-shifting.
What it is
A short Adam Ruins Everything clip arguing that corporations shift blame for litter and waste onto consumers. It touches on the packaging industry's anti-litter campaigns.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2017 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites foxhop · 2017-12 · on “Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'”
Agreed but like maybe companies shouldn't produce waste packaging, etc. This sounds an awful lot like "blame the litter bugs". Adam Ruins Everything - The Corporate Conspiracy to Blame You for Their Trash: [this video]
Cites djsumdog · 2018-06 · on “Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve”
You know that famous Indian crying from litter on the highway campaign? It was funded by the packaging industry. It was part of a propaganda campaign (a.k.a public relations) by packaging company to place the blame on litter and non-reusable packaging on the consumer instead of the industry. [this video]
Cites dbg31415 · 2019-03 · on “India Imposes Complete Ban on Solid Plastic Waste Imports”
I thought these were just depressing... but yeah, likely more truthful. Pick one, they're all just as depressing as the next. * Adam Ruins Everything - The Corporate Conspiracy to Blame You for Their Trash - YouTube || [this video] * Penn & Teller - Recycling - YouTube || [LINK] * Debunking recycling paper (P&T segment) - YouTube || [LINK] * The shocking scale of our waste - and the myth of recycling | Irene Rompa | TEDxMidAtlantic - YouTube || [LINK]
Cites vincnetas · 2019-11 · on “Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the Top Plastic Polluters”
"The Keep America Beautiful narrow focus on litter, and indeed construction of the modern concept of litter, is seen as an attempt to divert responsibility from industries that manufacture and sell disposable products to the consumer that improperly disposes of the related non-returnable wrappers, filters, and beverage containers.[2]" [LINK] also more entertaining media [this video]