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Plastics and microwave, I've seen this combination too many times.

Room temperature plastics are bad enough...

The Fastfood plastic coated Drinkcontainer, thrown into a potatoe field, literally comes back next year in everyones fries. Might aswell eat it directly..

They’re so undeniably useful though. It’s a real shame.

So is asbestos. It's wonderfully useful in a huge range of ways. Just rather violently human toxic when broken down. Much like plastics.

Plastic is economically incredible, not because you get more of what you were already buying (though that's cool too), but rather because entirely new problem-solving products enter your purchase power level.

Wealthy nations have a distorted view not because plastic is cheap (though it is), but because we're so rich that we no longer remember what it's like to be able to afford your first pair of shoes.

Plastic was a miracle material.