I thought it interesting to think about too. Because we measure everything using short-term values, we don't understand what we do to the long-term future. We

I thought it interesting to think about too. Because we measure everything using short-term values, we don't understand what we do to the long-term future. We could, but we don't seem to readily learn from past similar situations. Ideally the container would serve its purpose for as long as needed and breaks down accordingly - there's a high level of variance though, and our ability to refrigerate extends that. So because the expected 'lifetime' of a perishable good transported in plastic is highly variable, its not a simple time-matching problem. Who knows - maybe our dumped plastics become compressed into the future equivalent of diamonds...? But yeah, humanity generally has a way of finding workarounds / treatments etc. etc. For some reason I was recently reading wikipedia about how "Anodizing was first used on an industrial scale in 1923 to protect Duralumin seaplane parts from corrosion" and now its commonplace, extending durability everywhere.