The fossil fuel industry sees the writing on the wall regarding internal combustion engine powered automobiles, so they are aggressively pivoting to plastics. They have filled the atmosphere with green house gases and now they are planning to choke the planet with plastics.
This is the biggest, most powerful industry in the world, which will keep developing ever more convenient and attractive ways for us to use more and more plastic. They are spending billions on new petrochemical capacity which will completely destroy any market that exists for recycled plastic. The Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco is now valued at two TRILLION dollars, the most valuable company in the world; that is how confident people are that this will continue.The only way to stop them is to stop buying and using the products they are sealing in plastic. These new plants will make recycling plastics more expensive than virgin material, so there will be no incentive to reuse material.
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