re: #435 LudwigVanQuixote

Plastics are not the issue as far as emissions are concerned compared to burning the fossil fuels outright.

Now, the issue is emissions? I thought it was the purchasing of oil from Arab nations. If that is still the topic, then plastics are very much at issue. They are made from petroleum. The power to make them and extrude them into usable forms requires energy that is most probably fossil fuel energy. The trucks that transport them to the store and to your home requires petroleum energy.