IF the EPA bans vinyl chloride all that means is instead of manufacturing PVC pellets in the USA we will import them from some place else. The EPA banning the u

IF the EPA bans vinyl chloride all that means is instead of manufacturing PVC pellets in the USA we will import them from some place else. The EPA banning the use of PVC is about as realistic as banning the use of cardboard or paper. It is bewildering to me how many people think you can just ban an essential material and magically come up with an equivalent substitute. That is not how the real world works. In the case of asbestos the harm was much greater and the substitutes much better and more readily available and the use range of the original material was much narrower. The blind, ignorant hate for "plastics" online just goes to show how people can be led to believe anything. For example polyethylene, used in milk jugs and water pipes is absolutely harmless. You could swallow a fist full of PE pellets per day and they would simply pass right through you unchanged. This is a scientific fact. If a PE container can hold concentrated sulfuric acid your stomach is going to do nothing to it. Yet for some reason drinking out of a plastic milk jug is bad because some random person online said so.