I have better solution. Don't let market forces dictate everything. Optimizing for the price does not work everytime.

Go back to inert/non-toxic materials (glass, paper, wax), or find new ones. Abolish poisons and plastics in our food chains.

This has got to be sarcasm. How is it simpler to completely replace sexual reproduction than it is to find another chemical that makes plastic more flexible? Seems like a case of 0 knowledge of chemistry or biology.

I expect a successful artificial procreation attempt is on the horizon, a few decades away at most, as we already have stem cell technology that can do part of this, and in-vitro fertilization is a well-established technique.

As a symbolic gesture, it would be wonderful to see a lesbian couple co-conceive with each others' genetic material, entirely eliminating males from the process.

The really hard part will be perfecting and commodifying the process before hordes of angry men rebel at their sudden uselessness, and have such research banned and the labs destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis

and thereby eliminating adaptability via random exploration of allele combinations from distinct parents?