Plastic sitting around is a landfill is just unsexy carbon capture. I'm no expert but given the excess of carbon in the air, it's not out of the question that

Plastic sitting around is a landfill is just unsexy carbon capture. I'm no expert but given the excess of carbon in the air, it's not out of the question that a viable way forward is actually using more light plastic materials, not bothering with recycling or alternatives (when these are not cost/energy effective), and just putting it in big holes where they will presumable stay unscathed, until (maybe) some day it would be worthwhile to dig them out and reuse the carbon. The whole life cycle is generally carbon neutral, and might even offset more energy demanding alternative products. I feel that the general aversion to plastic is due to problems that arose more from waste mismanagement that caused the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for example, and not necessarily from the lifecycle of the products themselves.