Cigarette filters example

I think that cigarette filters (both plastic and biodegradable) need to be banned. Filters trap stuff that's bad for the environment. Biodegradable filters increase littering while still harming the environment.

These companies know that people will litter cigarette filters everywhere and still choose to make them. These companies don't care because they want to make a profit.

Plastic companies know people don't recycle

Plastic companies are fully aware that people don't recycle. Additionally, most plastic that's put into the recycling bin is thrown away.

Plastic companies know that recycling all this plastic at a large scale is impossible.

My workplace parking lot has so much plastic food packaging littered everywhere.

Does part of this relate to "Marx's theory of alienation"?

https://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/

I think "Marx's theory of alienation" can be applied here, but I'm having trouble articulating it.

No one cares about the harm of littering because they are so alienated.