@valth - Thank you for putting this post together. It is not difficult for anyone to continue to do the same based on some research and update the status.
My college degree was in Chemical Engineering, so, I have a deeper perspective on this than most.
When I graduated college, and around that time, there was a popular movie starred by Dustin Hoffman - "The Graduate" - in which there is a scene where every friend of his parents were giving him advice (one seduced him - but that is the story ...).
Anyway, for a Chemical Engineer looking for ideas to apply my education, this comment, an advice to the graduate in the movie stuck in my mind: "One word: Plastics".
However, I later found out that it is an industry that can be profitable one day and get whipped out the next if price swings too much in the unfavorable direction.
Perhaps that is the reason why there has been no real effort to clamp down on the use of plastics or styrofoam?
This problem has been with us, the world, for decades! I just wish that the efforts and money that goes to "global warming", a manufactured crisis that will not impact most people even if true, will go to remedies of this global survival problem - prevention and clean up.
Thanks!
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Yeah, I also think that money has a lot to do with the fact that we use this much plastic. It's really cheap, uses the oil that is not really suitable for anything else, and has great durability, so it makes sense. Except for the fact that it pollutes a lot when it is created, and kills fish and other marine species when we pollute with it.