Single-use plastic packaging proliferates because it is cheap and allows for standardization in the logistics chain.  It is sold to the public as being necessary, safe, the economy, sustainable, … but because this is all a lie; because this is really about externalized costs and corporate profits; because the burden born by society is extremely high, they have to construct an elaborate edifice of lies.  This includes recycling, advanced recycling, circular economy, sustainability. It includes coverups of health and environmental impacts associated with production. It also includes a move to shift responsibility for plastic waste from industry to society.