Comment by jkestner
1 day ago
It’s not the CEO’s fault - they had to take all that money to keep their org a non-profit.
B corps are like recycling programs, a nice logo.
1 day ago
It’s not the CEO’s fault - they had to take all that money to keep their org a non-profit.
B corps are like recycling programs, a nice logo.
Don't they get tax breaks and more lax operating requirements? I don't think this is just an image thing.
No, under US law charities and non-profits are typically eligible for some kinds of tax benefits but public benefit corporations are not.
Are you saying that recycling is a scam?
Aside from a few select product categories, recycling IS a scam.
E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...
Recycling mostly means "sent to landfills in the third world":
https://earth.org/waste-colonialism-a-brief-history-of-dumpi...
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countri...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-g...
Mostly, yeah. "Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true." https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
Many recycling programs don't actually recycle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-indus...