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"tide of anti-plastic sentiment"
I'm not anti-plastics; I'm anti plastic waste and am tired of being lied to from the industry about plastics recycling (or lack thereof).
We need to stop making plastic, putting the onus on waste management is the plastics industry equivalent of carbon capture.
That's fine, though I don't think we're going to find a way to economically recycle plastics. It's going to take something like a really large increase in plastic prices to make that viable.
I am against plastics. Still use that material daily, but am nostalgic for when things were not made of the stuff.
I decided on my own that all plastics are somewhat bad, one way or the other: some are poisonous to me due to their solvents and additions to make them last longer; perhaps all bad for the environment; some just not a good material to use - but is because its cheaper.
Over the last year I have been more aware of microplastics, and how all plastics tend to give off evaporates and/or microscopic shedding. I am sure that collecting this for decades in my body is not good, and most probably is harmful in unknown ways now.
I suspect future generations will have more aversion to this material, at least I hope so