i definitely saw ads from e.g. coca cola for a while, but they were more like sponsored PSAs saying "hey, lids are going to be attached from now on! just flip it to the side and it'll stay there. neat, huh?"
which is vastly better than it ending up in nature or in a landfill, incineration with collection of the waste heat is effectively just the worst form of recycling.
PET is so hilariously easy to recycle that you can literally just clean out bottles and put them in a little jig that cuts it into strips and feeds it into a 3d printer, it's not peak quality or anything but it totally works.
one who likes living in a world with.. things.. in it
what you're talking about is people who treat capitalism as a fucking religion, who think the only point to life is to make number go up.
A sane "capitalist" will realize that it should be a means to an end, that the actual goal is to make life nice, so it only make sense to apply capitalist practices up to the point where it causes harm.
Like, what are you going to do with billions of dollars if there's no one to maintain the roads and airports and railways? What joy would you experience on a wasteland planet with no pretty nature and human culture?
Think of an old-timey shopkeep for example, sure they operate under capitalism, but they still want to fucking talk to their customers and be part of the community, and they'll give kids some extra candy for free because they can trivially afford to do so and it brings them joy to see happy kids, plus those kids will then grow up and remember how ol' shopkeep Williams was nice to them and they'll help him out in his twilight years.
cocks gun Whatever the answer is, i'm about to add several more