> It's perplexing to see people jump on this stupid "anti-plastic" mentality bandwagon when they probably owe their entire existence to plastics and other advances in material sciences. Trying to reverse these changes will only lead to societal collapse, as somewhat hinted at in the article.

That's quite a large straw man you have there.

I expect there are some people who want to eliminate all plastics. I think they're a small minority.

Speaking for myself, I understand that there are many important jobs that can't be done without plastic.

That doesn't stop me from trying to reduce my use of non-essential plastics.

I'll choose the cardboard egg carton over the plastic almost every time, and it has no negative impacts on me.

Ditto with making my own sandwich bread - I keep it in plastic containers so it stays fresh, but those containers last way longer than the single-use bags at the store.

The list goes on and on.

Yeah, we need plastics until materials science produces usable semi-stable alternatives, and maybe we'll never get rid of them entirely, but we can absolutely use fewer of them.