No, the problem is definitely that we produce anything at all out of plastic that doesn’t strictly require it for whatever reason. Some medical applications are probably good examples. Anything that doesn’t strictly need to be plastic just grinds down to microplastics, contributing to their pollution of every last environment we check on earth. Every plastic product produced is one in which a business has forced their externalities onto the rest of society instead of addressing them themselves.
No, the problem is definitely that we produce anything at all out of plastic that doesn’t strictly require it for whatever reason. Some medical applications are probably good examples. Anything that doesn’t strictly need to be plastic just grinds down to microplastics, contributing to their pollution of every last environment we check on earth. Every plastic product produced is one in which a business has forced their externalities onto the rest of society instead of addressing them themselves.