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by leto_ii 727 days ago
> There are many flavors of this kind of accounting. Another version of free attribution would allow the company to take that entire 30-pound batch of “33% recycled” pouches and split them even further:

> A third of them, 10 pounds, could be labeled 100% recycled — shifting the value of the full batch onto them — so long as the remaining 20 pounds aren’t labeled as recycled at all.

Amusingly reminiscent of CDO tranches.

2 comments

  ANTONIO
 
    Is your recycled plastic ewes and rams?

  SHYLOCK

    I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast
Maybe more like CDO^2…