[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.