[ocrow]

You're implying a causative link between the visibility of consumer recycling and the prevalence of plastics, but I don't see that there is one. Is there more plastic packaging now because consumers demand it, or because producers can reduce product damage at low cost to themselves? If we want to reduce single use packaging we have to put economic/regulatory pressure on producers.

[JohnFen]

There is a strong correlation. It's not that consumers are demanding it, it's that consumers stopped rejecting it.

> If we want to reduce single use packaging we have to put economic/regulatory pressure on producers.

We were, and it was working! Then the plastics industry started up their bogus "recycling" efforts in order to change that trend. It worked incredibly well.

[WorldMaker]

It has been said that Coca-Cola saved a lot more money on glass bottles than they ever spent investing millions into recycling ads and PSAs.