sorry about the rant: what a nice thing, instead of a plastic straw that we know how to recycle, we get "paper" with microplastics or some other new non-recycl

sorry about the rant: what a nice thing, instead of a plastic straw that we know how to recycle, we get "paper" with microplastics or some other new non-recycleble composite anyway. The issue with plastics is our logistics for waste management, the common plastics are incredibly useful, but because we are shit at managing waste we are replacing plastics everywhere with worse materials that register as "evil" for the general. You can sell "no plastic" as green, or "bio degradable": Replace a plastic with something that is not plastic even though it's still less useful and non recycleable and you can call your product "green". Or say that it's biodegradable, which nowadays anything that doesn't take decades to decompose classifies, so you can have all the nasty stuff, including the very famous "micro plastics" in there and be green. There are so many rich kids in their "first world problems" that are activists and speak in conferences, that you can go to some in theory "respectable" climate conference and one talk be all about the evils of microplastic and the other about how we should use decomposable plastic (yeah, guess what it decomposes to?). The whole Green conversation is controlled by either privileged activists that clearly do not have a related STEM degree, or marketing/campaign departments calling anything "green"/good for the environment, pure manipulation.