[hourago]

> No, we are awash in labels already and I am sick of everything having a legal treatise attached to it. Labels just throw the problem back in the laps of consumers, an approach which clearly does not work.

Some labels are good and informative. Some labels are just a way for corporations to blame consumers for what consumers cannot do anything about.

Falsehood: - "Consumers are purchasing toxic products, so that is what we make."

Reality: - "Consumers buy what is available and they can afford."

[delfinom]

Recycling labels are some of the biggest falsehoods. Many plastics are simply not recycled at all, I think at best only #1 and #2 plastics are largely ever recycled. Even things like orange juice containers are considered not recyclable due to their heavy plastic coatings inside the paper shell and they will get sorted out to be dumped.

It's one way industry has scammed the public by convincing them much of the waste generated by low-cost (to the manufacturer) packaging was recyclable.

[phero_cnstrcts]

It’s terrible. Plus the west pays the Chinese companies to take care off the plastics anyway. They just dump it in the ocean and nothing is recycled.

Is actually better for the planet that you just burn it yourself instead of wasting diesel on transport to nowhere.

[hinkley]

Brand names were introduced to fight product adulteration. We still default to assuming that is working today. We should probably demand that this is actually true.