Well, we are a very low-density country, population-wise. Most of the country is uninhabited. Landfills are cheap and plentiful and fairly environmentally neut

Well, we are a very low-density country, population-wise. Most of the country is uninhabited. Landfills are cheap and plentiful and fairly environmentally neutral. Even if plastic takes 500 years to decompose, we couldn’t fill 1% of the country with landfills full it in that time if we wanted to. Cost of living is a big issue here, what to do with all those used chicken wing packages is not. I’m not saying we don’t dislike single use plastic, we’re moving away from it somewhat too. But it’s just really not much of a problem. In many cases, plastic packaging is better for the environment. A friend of mine owns a sauerkraut company that switched from glass jars to plastic bags. Glass jars need a lot more energy (and thus co2 emissions) to both create and transport. One truck of plastic bags probably holds as many packages as 20 trucks of glass jars. Of course, there’s the issue of induced demand which makes everything murky. And certainly, there are many cases where we simply could go without packaging entirely. But it’s not nearly as clear cut as “plastic bad”