Big Oil Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic, and Left Cities Grappling With a Costly Waste Problem

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7. People Conducted Business

for thousands of years prior to the advent of plastic. If we truly want to minimize or eliminate this form of waste we should increase the fees to handle it. If consumers actually saw the cost of packaging on their bill maybe they'd make some decisions to purchase stuff with less of it.

A lot of packaging is done to make items more bulky so they are harder to steal. Shrinkage (theft) in the retail industry is another eye opening statistic people and the press rarely explore.