Plastic is simply the result of capitalizing on the waste of refining petro products. You have to do something with it so the thinking went, so might as well ma

Plastic is simply the result of capitalizing on the waste of refining petro products. You have to do something with it so the thinking went, so might as well make plastic and make money off of it. You're also evenly distributing that waste all over, rather than at the refining site. Decades later we're realizing evenly distributing the waste all over may not have been such a good idea after all. Anyways, if you want less plastic then you're going to need to pump less oil, and the way to pump less oil is to reduce the demand on refined oil products such as gasoline. It's pretty much as simple as that.