And that’s probably the right direction to go in. I’d developed awareness of how bad plastic is for the ocean a long time ago (I’ve walked on enough Indonesian beaches where you can’t see the sand anymore due to plastic debris), but the problem is worse than large chunks of plastic littering the land and water. It’s the degradation of plastic, and the resultant introduction of microplastics into everything, that is even more alarming from an environmental and health standpoint.
I started this thread a while back and since then I’ve learned enough to realize that we ought to be using plastic only where we really need it, for example in medical devices.
I continue to use the plastic I own, and of course it is pretty much impossible to live a normal first-world life without constantly consuming plastic, but I do everything I can to avoid it. Plastic water bottles can and should be avoided.