When plastic wrapping conquered the planet, everyone thought it was great since plastic is recyclable. Today we know it's mostly a lie so we could send that tra

When plastic wrapping conquered the planet, everyone thought it was great since plastic is recyclable. Today we know it's mostly a lie so we could send that trash to 3rd world countries who'd just dump it in the sea or handle it in other bad ways. It's great that this packaging solves the problem of plastic staying around forever or turning into microplastics when floating around in the ocean and exposed to the UV light from the sun. But the first thing I'm wondering is whether that new packaging really solves that problem too or just speeds the process up a lot, or maybe just has different bad effects. Towards the end it mentions "carefully wrapped in paper", so hopefully it's not actually a more hazardous variant of plastic that happens to degrade faster.