[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Technology and capitalism catches up with and surpasses socialism and the nanny state once again.

If you are or know a recent college graduate who is looking for a career, I have one word: landfills. One day soon they will be gold mines.

[moovova]

If you are or know a recent college graduate who is looking for a career..."

"One word...landfills."

[Candor7]

Plastic is now an environmentally chemically friable resource.

Watch the oceans get cleaned up because of the demand for these chemical components of plastic.

[VastRWCon]

Well Hiden Biden just killed off oil so there will be no plastic in the future.

[wbarmy]

Thermal de-polymerization works well also, but the ROI for any of these is not workable until oil hits 50$ a barrel.

[Damifino]

Many of my Freeper friends will disagree with me on this but I believe plastic pollution is currently the most pressing man-made environmental issue to address.

Most plastics only break down into smaller bites of plastic. There are microplastics found in animal's livers everywhere on the planet including those in the deepest oceans. We have no idea what the long-term effect of this is. How can it be ok? Concentrations will only get higher as we pour more waste plastics into the system.

There's more to this equation than the relative cost of recycling vs creating new.

[ridesthemiles]

Convince me about how wind or solar energy will produce such high temps to make this work.

CONVINCE ME.