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Plastic ish materials can be made from plants like hemp, stronger and non toxic depending on how they are made.
Good luck switching over, barriers to entry, an economy of scale needed to compete with plastic, and oil bros using the government to stymie competition would all prevent large scale switch over.
90 pc of all plastic ever made had been made in the last ten years it was reported years back, and huge new manufacturies were under construction. Which since everything was already plastic makes one wonder what all new they are doing with this increasing supply?
One thing is for certain, landfill it. Recycling plastic does not work, it releases chemicals, and was a psy op of oil companies to begin with to deflect blame.
Hemp is so good and we should be using more of it.
Hemp is great, it would be a boon for farmers, with the end economy of scale they could take some of the leafy hemp parts for paper production, which makes better paper than wood pulp, and then the fibrous stocks can be used to make all sorts of like particle board and construction materials. Like plywood.