MF, it's been a crisis but along with climate change involves "too much" cost for companies to back away from

It’s like the boy who called “wolf” but there’s a huge wolf and there’s always been a wolf.

Whenever I see something like this, I can only imagine an utopia free of capitalistic agendas that is humanity first.

and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal

I know this part is likely referring to the plastic itself, but due to the headline summary, it sounds like a super industrial, dystopic way of describing human birth and death.

Wondering the negative effects will be as bad as leaded gasoline?

Absolutely disgusting:

Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company “formed a ring” around her, she says.

At another event in Ottawa, Carney Almroth was “harassed and intimidated” by a plastic packaging representative, who barged into the room and shouted that she was fearmongering and pushing misinformation. That meeting was an official event organised by the UN. “So I filed the harassment reports with the UN,” said Carney Almroth. “The guy had to apologise, and then he left the meeting. He was at the next meeting.”

Oh well, add it to the pile.

We're all forty plus years into the great atomization project and we no longer have any ability to tackle even minor systemic issues. There's no way in our current state we're removing plastic from even newly manufactured items.

The actual solution to the Fermi Paradox, artifical polymerization.

Will we extinct from plastic or not ? What is the chance we passed the point of no return ?

Less than 10% of plastic is recycled.

Less than 10% is recycled and nobody wants to recycle it anyway, because it is difficult to recycle and the resulting recycled plastic is worse.

and is set to almost triple again

instead of a band of rust, our mark in the fossil record will be a layer of plastistone - plastics fused right into the rock.