Like most TreeHugger readers I had an ah ha moment a while ago regarding plastics, the ubiquity of them in our lives, the huge problems of disposing or recycling them, the absurdity of using a material that takes anywhere from thousands to billions of years to biodegrade in products destined for one-time use, the health problems increasingly being linked with some of them, etc., etc.. It was truly head spinning for me, especially when you attempt to balance the negatives of plastics with the undeniable good uses of them for some applications.
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