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I think you're getting emotionally caught up on the idea of having less plastic. If it was safely and permanently buried, it would be no worse for the environment but cheaper than recycling or using less.

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Single-use/disposable plastics are just one prong of a larger culture of waste and consumption that has many limiting downsides like how we've been trained to buy tech gadgets that we can't even upgrade nor repair. Or how we are more likely to trash our pants than learn a simple life skill like how to mend a small hole. Or how less and less self-reliant we become.

That it's cheap to bury our trash in the perfect, well-maintained landfill is a tiny consolation.

I constantly get items in the mail that come in very excessive plastic packaging. Taxing plastic would take care of most of that.

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