Antis Oppose $1.1B Plastics Recycling Plant in Northumberland, PA
Plastics come from oil and natural gas. You knew that, right? Without plastics, modern life would be impossible. We'd revert to a time when we used horse and buggy. Modern hospitals would close without plastic tubing to deliver life-saving medicine or plastic gloves to protect against infection. Yet our reliance on plastics is not without problems. Too much plastic ends up in landfills and our oceans--killing critters. Microplastics end up in our bodies. Yuck. However, there are solutions to the problems of plastics that avoid a ban on manufacturing plastic products.
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