>>88868811Concerns over microplastics are not "environmentalist" fear mongering, quite the opposite. "Environmentalists" want all the plastics to be "recycled" which means selling them to poor countries that dump them into the sea, thus contaminating the sea with microplastics.
The solution, which is what "environmentalists" hate, is to just dump them into landfills which are sealed from the environment, which we have plenty of room left on the earth for (at least until we find better chemicals to use in place of major plastics), but selling contracts to landfill companies doesn't go towards "environmentalist" "green" companies and their grift.