Cold hard facts: if it's not a PET 1 or PET 2, it's not going to be recycled in North America, unless it's part of commercial or industrial recycling program.

Yes, they end up in the waterways, and don't "compost".

We can actually make replacements for plastics to actually biodegrade into food, and we can produce single use plastics that are recyclable, but that requires only using ONE type of plastic in a material, and having a recycling program run by commerce and industry.

Otherwise it's wishful thinking.

There, problem solved

Seriously, reality TV hosts ... it's not a high bar to climb.

UW, WSU, UPS, SPU, SU are all dropping as well.

Obviously teh Google got caught and now they pay the penalties.

Is so sad. Having of many tears am I. Beklempt.

The cold hard reality is that any established tech firm has tons of cash and near-cash reserves, and he just didn't want his golf buddies in the exec suite to have to cut their outrageous compensation packages.

All hail the God Emperor Xi the Teddy Bear children's toy!

Glory to his occupying forces!

No, there are other options, and the world is changing

Remember, it's still 20 years in the future, just as it was at the 1963 World's Fair

There are organic and inorganic replacements for many of those. Including sealants.

I'm not saying there's nothing that plastics might be a more optimal solution for, but those tend to be when it's a single plastic chemical string, usually something "permanent". Most plastics in use are for temporary things, and those are bad uses.

We don't actually need plastics.

Most containers can be replaced by materials that are recyclable (plastic isn't) or compostable (plastic isn't).

Mushroom fibers, paper bags, seaweed, there are many replacements which can be mass manufactured at cheaper costs.

It's only with artificial subsidies and no disposal costs that plastics even exist.

They're just theories that have been proven by repeated observation.

As we increase observations, we notice gaps, or things that don't quite work, so we propose replacement theories, which when given sufficient proof of observations, replace the prior Laws.

That's what science is.

Look, we're doing this.

It's for the species, boys and girls.

Now, let's expire all fossil fuel infrastructure tax subsidies, tax depreciation allowances, set-asides (such as power shaping requirements), exclusions (such as whale oil, kerosene, etc), and exemptions.

Today.

Most Western states (BC WA OR CA) already have plastic bag bans.

Not much happened.

Our lives are fine.

Oh, and we make a lot more than the rest of you do, since we're most of the US GDP, so that's not an argument either.

Return to a 50 percent corporate tax and 90 percent top 10 percent individual income tax with 40 percent capital gains tax like we had from 1935 to 1965 and we'll be right as rain.

Or even drop it to 40 corporate 70 top 10 percent individual 40 percent capital gain like 1965 to 1985 and we'll fix it promptly.