There's a lot of confusion in this post, but just to pick on one particularly errant bit, "forever chemicals" are not new chemicals, they've been around as long

There's a lot of confusion in this post, but just to pick on one particularly errant bit, "forever chemicals" are not new chemicals, they've been around as long as plastics have (1940s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst... ) A key difference between them and plastics is how deeply they get into the body and bloodstream. (There is some similar crossover with chemicals used in plastic like BPA, but more generally the concerns around plastic are around environmental damage vs individual organism and organ damage.) (That age is also a reason to believe they aren't immediately apocalyptic since we've been living with them for a while, but research into how much can be well tolerated is very important since they stick around so well.)