[I wish you people would stop referring to a 61-year-old guy as "old."]
If you remember the first moon walk, JFK's death and watching Vietnam on TV, you're old.
Consider this, in the time you have existed on this planet, plastic has almost degraded back into a petroleum product in some landfill. Enviromentalists tell us this is a long time.
Sorry.
You're kidding, right?