America’s anti-litter campaign was corporate PR in a recycling costume

The war on litter was never intended to save the planet; it was created to protect polluters from accountability.

The “Keep America Beautiful” campaign taught us that litter is a moral failure. A personal flaw best corrected with shame, mascots, and finger-wagging slogans. But Current Affairs lays out, in an infuriating deep dive, how the anti-litter mov…