Of course plastic itself is a huge issue, and a gross misuse of an amazing technology IMO. On the one hand it's an amazing material that has been vital to techn

Of course plastic itself is a huge issue, and a gross misuse of an amazing technology IMO. On the one hand it's an amazing material that has been vital to technological progress by enabling electrification, plumbing and all sorts of advanced manufacturing. On the other hand it's vastly overused in packaging and the amount of molded plastic created with zero consideration of end-of-life is staggering. Everything from phones, keyboards, mice, monitors, speakers, webcams, microphones, joypads, printers (just looking around my desk here) to combs, toothbrushes, sneakers, clothes, kitchen appliances, TOYS/Lego etc., and that's just durables. Then you have all the use-once-and-dump packaging - bottles, straws and plastic grocery bags kind of get most of the attention but when you start to look around you notice how much of is used for cosmetics, food containers etc.