Good! It’s long irked me that the responsibility for dealing with plastic waste lands on the individual and municipalities, when they have little to no say in its production and regulation.

Current residential recycling is more about feeling like you’re doing good, rather than actually making any impact. I can dump cardboard, all types of plastic, and metals into my magic blue bin and believe it’s getting sorted and dealt with appropriately, when in reality the plastic portion is just landfilled or shipped to a poorer country.

Aspirational recycling has been part of my outlook for years, until recently.

So much stuff is made of plastic. Most gifts our child receives from well-meaning relatives are plastic, and I’ve asked them for wood and other natural materials instead. It’s too easy to buy petrochemical products.

I’d like to be able to put more things into the compost or firebox after I’m done with them. Recently switched from plastic garden hose to yoking buckets of water to our food-plants.

Perhaps the most-impactful thing we individuals can do is lobby our elected officials towards controlled change, whatever your preferred method of pressure. Will y’all with that, please?

The plastic is actually being burned in many countries nowadays, as this is considered preferable to landfill, and China is no longer importing bulk plastic that hasn't been properly sorted.