Americans refusing to buy anything too 'eco-friendly' (!?)

Despite the fact that the global ecosystem's clearly teetering on the brink of collapse, Americans are - apparently - not in any "rush" to let it affect their well-honed spending habits. The latest "earth-friendly" products they're telling to fuck off and die: anything refillable. That's just, like, soooo not American.

Refills are in comparatively wide use here in Europe, where landfills and expansive pantries aren't as plentiful as they are in the Benighted States. You'd think American consumers would also like them for the potential savings and the eco-friendliness from the smaller containers. Containers and packaging generated about 72 million tons of trash in 2009, nearly one third of that year's total municipal solid waste, according to estimates by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But no.....They just haven't caught on. "Refills have had mostly five decades of failure," says Mr. Flickinger, the consultant.

Let's continue enjoying our refills, Europe. Over in the USA they squirt a bottle of Windex once, then blow up the Windex factory. That factory is used. Americans don't do used. They do new. America, motherfuckers. They'd see to it that refills have another five decades of failure, if the planet was going to be around that long.
http://gawker.com/5794800/were-willing-to-spend-up-to-0-extra-on-green-products?tag=environmentalism