Its simple. Make the plastics manufacturers pay for 100% of gathering, sorting and recycling of the hazardous waste they priduce, including plastics. That would make plastic containers expensive and we would come up with alternatives.

Well the ‘America bad for the world’ is arguably not wrong.

I agree. For example: how would you Americans view this music video form almost 40 years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQ&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGA&start_radio=1&rv=UHChZIHePic Made in socialist Yugoslavia. Right wing? Left wing? Authoritarian? Nutjob?

How do we feel about having 8g of plastic in our brain. Each of us. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cef0/fd3b2409e2ef92182d9fc42e4308d5fe1b2b.pdf

I have never seen a teflon pan that didnt have scratches after a few years.