Ever notice the scourge to the environment of the littered / discarded single use plastic liquid containers and plastic grocery bags? Eliminating them would be a great start for humans to actually start preserving the natural beauty that God has Intrusted us to maintain. Or just start shooting those who litter!
So, what do you propose we use?
Steel cans work great but will greatly raise the cost of many products.
Wax coated paper works fine on some things but doesn’t have the flexibility of plastic for multiple squeezes (dish soap etc. Paper with wax or polymer coating doesn’t break down much. It’s also dirtier to produce.
A typical 2 liter bottle has about the same amount of plastic as a test tube does glass. In other words, not much. It gets blown and molded to size.
Everything breaks down over time. Would I prefer people kept their trash and disposed of it properly? Absolutely, however, I refuse to allow some government overlord to tell me what I can use. Your post seems to imply that’s what we need.
Roadways and such have lots of trash. I’m often amazed at how little trash I see in parks and on hiking trails. Most of it looks like stuff that got away, not what was dumped there.