truth in advertising...

[thanate]

I'm never quite sure what to think of this kind of thing... On the one hand, it's pretty (if not my style of jewelry) and recycling is a "good thing." But honestly? Making a claim about buying some vastly expensive designer recycled-plastic bracelet being remotely akin to saving the world is... well, bordering on hypocritical. How many plastic bags does the average consumer-culture american acquire in a week?How many of those go either straight into the trash, or immediately get bundled up to go in the recycling outside the grocery store? And you're saying that a bracelet that might have the plastic content of three or four bags and is outside the price range of large numbers of the people who collect random plastic and scatter it about the world is helping you save the planet?

Recycling only works if there's a resale market for all the materials you're trying to put into it. Sigh.

Comments

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

Recycling is also MORE costly than making new, usually.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Although as I understand it, that's in large part because it's a much smaller operation. If we did more recycling (particularly of paper type things) then the systems would get put in place to balance it out.

Of course, if the oil prices keep going up, possibly this will start to make recycled plastic a more cost-effective option. One can hope, anyway...

[dragonvyxn.livejournal.com]

those are way too expensive to be anything but a ploy to get rich people who aren't really trying to save the world at all to feel like they're "contributing"... i'm kind of disgusted, actually. and they're sort of hideous....

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Yeah... there's a lot of this stuff around, unfortunately-- the "oh, buy this horribly expensive repurposed useless-thing and feel like you're saving the world" trend. Probably it's the marketing version of the credit card/trust fund hippies. And it's not that I'm not all for repurposed art. It's just the marketing spin that's just ridiculous.