Although I agree with your sentiment of embracing contrarian views, this is very clearly a paid for Petro-chemical PR piece. Now, digging into the points you m

Although I agree with your sentiment of embracing contrarian views, this is very clearly a paid for Petro-chemical PR piece. Now, digging into the points you make: > 2. Focusing on recycling takes finite attention away from bigger issues, like meat consumption, flying, and coal power. I have two issues with this: 1. The focus on recycling is itself a deflection maneuver from the Packaging and Petro-Chemical groups. Recycling and the shifting of responsability and 'guilt' from industry to consumers is an incredibly succesful cost externalization for the petro-chemical and packaging industries. 2. All the examples of 'bigger issues' you refer are areas where there is more Carbon/Methane emissions. However, the issue everybody has against plastic was never the issues of emissions but the calamity of microplastics. Microplastics have created a defacto man made plastic geological epoch. They have by now contaminated our food sources, our water supplies, and have contaminated the whole water cycle to the point that they can be found in alpine glaciar ice. More worryingly there is now strong evidence on the hormonal and fertility disruption in both humans and animals due to microplastic absorption/ingestion. So Plastic is indeed a _huge_ issue not due to emissions but due to it's disruption in our ecosystems and our health.