Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability

Mongabay
Sep 21, 2025, 9:29 pm117 ptsTrending
When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model built on disposability, dressed…

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