Many common plastics are made from ethylene and propylene, which are byproducts of the refining process and for many years were simply burned in flares.
The fact that those (formerly waste) gases are now turned into useful products is a turn for the better, I think.
Eliminating plastic would have no significant impact on the exploration and production of oil. Things are not always as simple as they seem.
So why lead rising oil prices to higher costs of plastic if it's just trash or a "byproduct"? There is no future for oil based fuels and plastics if you want to keep this planet.
2) We've forcefully relocated (and killed!) people for their land several times in the past few hundred years.
3) How much violence in this country is sparked over money? Michael Mann's made some pretty good movies dramatizing bank robberies that result in gunfights.
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I love plastic :(
I'd vastly prefer to recycle or decompose it than to never use it again.
Remember plastic is made of oil (petroleum) so people actually die for plastic.
Many common plastics are made from ethylene and propylene, which are byproducts of the refining process and for many years were simply burned in flares.
The fact that those (formerly waste) gases are now turned into useful products is a turn for the better, I think.
Eliminating plastic would have no significant impact on the exploration and production of oil. Things are not always as simple as they seem.
So why lead rising oil prices to higher costs of plastic if it's just trash or a "byproduct"? There is no future for oil based fuels and plastics if you want to keep this planet.
Historically people die over anything desirable. Food, land, water, gold. There's no solution other than fixing human nature itself.
When did the US start the last war about food, land, water or gold?
1) War doesn't have a monopoly on killing people.
2) We've forcefully relocated (and killed!) people for their land several times in the past few hundred years.
3) How much violence in this country is sparked over money? Michael Mann's made some pretty good movies dramatizing bank robberies that result in gunfights.
So what's your point? War over petroleum (and thus plastic) is not that bad because we kill for other reasons too? Come on!