"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).
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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