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- Subject: Pushing Plastic
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 01:32:00 GMT
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- The Wall Street Journal 18 December 1992
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- Plastic Companies Try to Mold Better Image, By Frank Edward Allen
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- The Plastic industry is out to make a better impression.
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- The American Plastics Council plans to spend $18 million through
- May on an advertising and public-relations campaign urging
- consumers to "take another look at plastic" and to "think again"
- about its many benefits.
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- Television spots developed by D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles are
- running during such prime-time programs as " Murder, She Wrote,"
- "Quantum Leap" and "America's Funniest Home Videos." They are
- being supplemented by network radio spots and display ads in nine
- magazines, including Family Circle, National Geographic and
- People.
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- One ad praises foam cups for "keeping sodas nice and cold" and
- requiring "less energy to make than many other disposable cups."
- Others commend grocery bags, carpets and car fenders made from
- plastic.
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- The council says it also is funding "a program to place articles
- and newspaper editorials by respected third parties" about the
- environmental soundness of burning plastic.
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- Part of the gap may be industry credibility. The council recently
- decided to quit calling itself the Partnership for Plastics
- Progress. Before that, it was euphemistically known as the
- Council for Solid Waste Solutions. Critics say the new campaign
- has a similar blind spot. The ads discuss plastic in a vacuum,
- they say, as if there weren't any consumer skepticism to
- overcome.
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- "People don't dislike plastics," says Jackie Prince, a scientist
- for the Environmental Defense Fund. "They just don't like the
- fact that they don't know what to do with them when they're done.
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- To get FREE plastics propaganda call:
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- 1-800-243-5790
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