Plastic may actually be driving us all crazy. Given that there has been some studies linking microplastics and other chemicals from plastics that can cause or be a factor in some mental health issues. I wouldn’t be surprised if they played a bigger factor than what’s reported anyway. I mean ffs the seed oil industry lied to us for decades about the safety of their highly processed, rancid oils and even now when you try and talk about it everyone thinks you’re crazy. Don’t forget the sugar industry and also the fake sugar industry, arguably worse. Also leaded gasoline, where it took literal decades of fighting to finally force the petroleum industry to stop putting literal neurotoxins in gasoline, and is still a thing in some countries… All it takes to get a potentially poisonous food (or other) item approved and promoted by the FDA, American Heart Association, etc, is a nice fat donation. The buyout of US regulatory bodies isn’t something recent. They have been doing it for years.

As far as plastics go… they already have being lying about recycling. What is it’s like, 80% of recycled plastics can’t actually be recycled? Something about it was all a lie to make people ok with how much trash they were producing? Because otherwise people were starting to freak out because they had never had so much trash before… lol Now that the cats out of the bag though it’s all been normalized so so no one gives a shit.