Well I'm old enough to have lived during Ceaușescu's times for a while and I remember very little plastic from back then. Plastic bottles were basically unhear

Well I'm old enough to have lived during Ceaușescu's times for a while and I remember very little plastic from back then. Plastic bottles were basically unheard of. Glass or metal containers it was and they were also recycled. Bags were mostly cloth. Again, no plastic. So it's definitely possible to live in a much-less plastic polluted world. Unfortunately we live in the society of "It's pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, but it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort that what it takes to just wash the spoon when you're done with it..."