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MagicPeacockSpider t1_ja91uch wrote

Reply to comment by WiseChoices in Rights to 'Crying Indian' ad to go to Native American group by Slavic_Dusa

Sadly while it may have appeared to be to stop littering and protect the environment it wasn't.

It was the plastics lobby shifting the blame onto consumers for plastic waste and littering because there has started to be some ideas of banning it or taxing it.

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cdiddy19 t1_ja92hmq wrote

Yup their reports came out that they were polluting the earth, so they shifted the blame to the everyday man

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WiseChoices t1_ja924f0 wrote

To me, what it changed was our heart attitudes for the Earth.

Greed continues to destroy it. Sad, but true 👍

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gopher_space t1_ja9qht2 wrote

There were grassroots anti-littering campaigns all over the place back then, so it was an easy sentiment to tap into. It's really hard to convey how OK everyone used to be about littering.

If you've seen Anchorman there's a little bit where the news team are eating hotdogs and walking through a park. They come up to a trash can but throw their dogs on the ground before tipping the can over. Then they just walk away and there's no explanation. That was normal life until the 80s.

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derpy-_-dragon t1_jabgmvq wrote

I remember watching an episode of Madmen for my English writing class in college where the family went out for a picnic at the park, and when they finished they just flapped the sheet to toss the trash off of it and then put the blanket in the trunk.

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Wobbley19 t1_ja9f6yd wrote

Yep and they got this poor guy hook line and sinker, clearly believes it’s the individual and not the companies fault

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