I don't agree that the states should be responsible. I believe that it is the companies that are creating the plastics to begin with. They lobbied for this mess they should pay to clean it up.

no thx stalin

Colorado has a polystyrene limit in food packaging. Policies are changing slowly in the USA.

@@titanicisshit1647point taken, but we’re getting to the point of finding microplastics in our water supplies. I remember hearing about PFAS contamination in my former city of Tucson.

Well that doesn't earn enough clicks tho

I agree, cracking the problem of plastic waste is important. (ruthenium metal and carbon)

I'm sure all of their competitors would also like to know. 🤔

Read a great book called The partys over for better understanding. Make no mistake Most easily gotten resources have been exploited. If you think gold 1 plus miles under ground is abundant. Start digging

Cleaner than virgin fuels as you are getting a pure reaction product.

And what to do with all the plastic that already is a problem now ? Even if isn't an energy efficient source of fuel is better than burning it directly or, worse, throw it in landfills or the ocean.

Glass breaks and is a safety hazard. Do you use glassware to teach kids how to eat? Glass is heavy, and would waste more energy in its handling and its transport. And lets remember being brittle, glass needs sufficient material to pad their rattling and stay apart from each other, causing less volume. Not only are glassware thicker than a plastic bottle wall thickness, they need to be spaced apart too. A lorry that couldve carried a million drinks normally would only be carrying a few hundred thousands if the drinks were packed in glass. More trucks on the road to satisfy the same demand. Glass needs high temperature to remelt/recycle, and will use up more energy and cause more emissions. Aluminium needs higher temp than plastic to process too. Cannot be injection moulded and needs really expensive machinery to forge into shape. Aluminium is also expensive. Also too flimsy when thing to wrap food as bags, unlike plastic bags that actually get tougher when you stretch it (up to a limit). Its easy to shoot out suggestions and pretend to be smart, but its clear you have never really given any meaningful thought to the stuff youre saying. I immediately formed these arguments against glass and aluminium as soon as I read your idea. Go brainstorm a new idea for material to replace plastics. Lower your ego, and play as a critic against your own ideas. Otherwise you would be churning out half baked ideas and have it be ridiculed so easily

@@de0509 I was raised using glassware. A cup or two have been broken, but eventually me and my sister learned not only how to avoid it but also how to deal with the shards when it happened. But then again children nowadays are made of snow flakes, apparently.

@@de0509 I posted open ended question, not solution. You suggested for me to think things thru(which is valid), but then you said that you formed your opinion immediately after reading mine. Kind of hypocricy. What about all the plastic that ends up in the environment? Microolastic? Plastic killing wildlife on the ground and in water? There are problems with all materials. The bigger problem is overconsumption. Why we dont carry our own reusable bottles? Conveniemce is killing us. Want caffeinated sugary drink? Take Hot coffee with you in thermos. I will brainstorm, wishing you to do the same.

Nope, this is industry taking responsibility, NOT the consumer.

Exactly!

Make a better product and you’ll be a billionaire.

@@Grasshopper.80 it's called glass 🤦‍♂️ you know that stuff we used in the past but greedy people wanted to make more money for a bigger boat.

@@justinh2701 oh yeah I forgot about glass. Stupid me.

Yeah that's it: until the whole world agrees in one voice to solve a given problem at exactly the same time, we mustn't even consider doing something about it at all. Good thinking, very cleaver indeed.

Oil company propaganda comment. No, plastic is full of energy, you only need to add a fraction of the contained energy to get back a surplus of energy. And the whole idea is to avoid burning the plastic, so hardly any CO2 is released this way.

And subtract the 10 times again im long run of utilizing nuclear-generated power.😂 Don't say nuclear is dangerous therefore we must use solar bla bla bla. If that the case, please return to nomadic way of hunter gatherer society.

We have many sources of waste that can be used for energy.

@@dasgerbil5189 Solaris 10 times more dangerous than nuclear look at all over the toxic heavy metals that they are dumping into our envivomen to produce wind turbine and solar panels!

@@curtisnixon5313 watch some of the videos and see how much wood they burn in the process. You could drive 10 times as far on the smoke from that wood if you built a gasification system, My nefue is the engineer on a large communal farm in North Decora end theypower the entire farm including the equipment from gassafied crop waste and wood chips.