And honestly, the a lot of the problems with plastics are actually a very specific and fixable problem. 90% of the plastics in the Pacific Ocean come from 2 rivers.
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
It's not the plastic that's a problem. It's poverty and lack of organization of those regions. If humanity never invented the plastic those rivers would still be the most polluted (with population waste) rivers on the globe.
Manufacturers simply replace BPA with similar alternatives which aren't as widely known by consumers (BPS or BPF for example).