What about the "scientists" who invented the shit? Where are they?

Glad to see some action on plastic waste. I have come to believe plastics are as bad as radioactive waste, except they seem innocuous and so we have fallen in love with their ease of use.
We need to stop using plastic for everything. Glass and paper are biologically more sustainable and recyclable.
Now we have to rise up and call for restricted use of plastics, or find ways to make it bio-degradable.

They spend their days wondering how t escape the ravages of Capitalism.

"Where are they?" - szores88

the scientists who invented plastic are mostly like dead and turned to dust by now.

Glass and paper both pollute a heck of a lot more than plastic! In terms of energy required for production (CO2) emmissions, the chemicals used in the manufacture of paper products are highly toxic & poisonous to just about everything, you are cutting down trees that could be sucking in CO2, or running a blast furnace to make glass.

We need to get a lot better about recycling our plastics, not switch to things that are worse for the environment as a whole.

Those who are critical of the use of plastic - convince me by telling me of how you have managed to live plastic-free? Meaning, no plastics were even involved in the production of products you own or use.

Even where substitute materials are available, they are often inferior in performance, regardless of the cost.

I don't deny that plastic pollution is a problem, but outright bans are not a realistic solution.

We'll be seeing a new river of plastic from 3D printing- the next "big thing". It's presence is insidious, because we eat the fish that eat the plastic. Plastic should be edible as well as biodegradable. I would only eat the more expensive organic, non-GMO plastic, though.

Plastic is everywhere, we are bombarded with it and cannot ignore it. We do need to make it biodegradeable or we will be injesting it through our food and then evolution will take over! Good or bad only future will tell.

Plastic was mostly unheard of in the early 1960's.

Plastics are far younger than you know.

"the scientists who invented plastic are mostly like dead and turned to dust by now." - phi-stee

Within a span of 50 years or so, plastics have taken over our lives. We must recognize the harm they are doing to us. paper and glass may need more energy, create more waste, but that waste is biodegradeable. Energy and water can be conserved and the water cycles back to us. Plastics will destroy us. We cannot burn them due to toxins, they do not degrade, they kill other forms of life that are necessary for our own to survival. Think. Think. Think about the consequences of our selfish lifestyle!

I have created a solution to CO2 carbon capture and at the same time an analysis of the value of plastics in waste! One can be used to pay for the other. Here it is http://rawcell.co...axation/