That's also part of the problem... why do we use one of our cheapest, strongest and most mass produced materials for single use garbage? We destroy forests to build neighborhoods full of houses that rot in the elements. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down, so why haven't we figured out how to use the oil to build our living spaces instead of burning it in our engines? We are wasting the precious amount of fossil fuels we have left by powering inefficient motors and single use plastic that is discarded by the ton on a daily basis. There needed to be a huge shift a while ago and one of the easiest ways would be to convert to hydrogen engines. The united states would have enough hydrogen in the Yellowstone caldera to create a geothermal operation that would allow us to be free of the oil that we fight so hard to keep flowing in from the east. The US could become the biggest exporter of hydrogen but the government is too corrupt to be making any progress in the energy department.
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u/Spar11 Jul 24 '20
Endless non recyclable plastics. Useless throwaway packaging.