The future portended here won’t be our leaving mountains of Solo cups and garbage bags, but rather untold generations worth of disrupted hormones, preventable d

The future portended here won’t be our leaving mountains of Solo cups and garbage bags, but rather untold generations worth of disrupted hormones, preventable deaths and disease, and ecological destruction on unprecedented scales. Plastic will degrade, but the large chained polymers it’s made of will persist in the environment effectively forever. At least, that’s how I understand this particular apocalyptic scenario.