The contemporary consumer society represents a fundamentally unsustainable relationship with material goods, one in which the logic of endless accumulation and disposal has become institutionalized as normal. This paper examines the interconnected phenomena of planned obsolescence and waste generation as defining characteristics of modern consumer capitalism, utilizing sociological frameworks to demonstrate that pollution. Drawing on critical theories from Vance Packard to Jean Baudrillard and situating analysis within environmental sociology, this examination reveals how consumer culture manufactures both desire and waste as mechanisms for perpetuating capital accumulation. Understanding consumer society as a polluted society requires moving beyond individual behavioural explanations to interrogate the structural imperatives of capitalism that mandate overproduction, planned product failure and the externalization of environmental costs onto marginalized communities and the Global South.