plastic gets a bad rep but its actually an amazing technology

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It makes modern medicine possible, but it's a Faustian bargain if we can't truly recycle it effectively

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Hard disagree. I’d suggest it’s the other way around, that it would be a far greater mistake if we *didn’t* apply our knowledge of plastic in such live-saving ways despite long-term uncertainty about what to do with it. 

“We can’t use this technology to save your life because it ends up in a landfill” is a dark take. 

By the way I am 100% in favor of materials innovation, replacing plastic with hemp, corn, paper, etc —when parity allows. I’m not necessarily pro-plastic, but i am pro humanity.

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Me too, about the material innovation, it's innovation I fear is being stifled, because plastic is profitable, and profit is king, for some reason...