…like mass transit, dense housing, and reusable bags and straws are a public-health disaster. I was predicting this about California since they passed that stupid plastic-bag ban.
[Update a while later]
Plastic had fallen out of favor, but the virus is bringing it back.
I really can’t wrap my head around the anti-plastic “movement” (which, to me, is akin to a bowel function), in that it serves no purpose whatsoever apart from making human life worse.
The chief complaint of the anti-plastic people seems to be that discarded plastic items are buried under ground (in landfills) where they remain for thousands of years.
Okay. The plastic is mainly made from ethane, a component of natural gas better suited as a chemical feedstock than a fuel. It was in the ground for 500 million years. Humans take it out of the ground, convert it to something useful to us, then put it back in a more stable form.
That is bad…why?