Eli5: Fossil fuel prices have been an issue for years, why is plastic still the cheapest material out there?
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it’s easy to make. in fact it’s practically trash made from making gas and diesel.
glass is heavy and reletivly energy intensive, metals are valuable for many other things(cars for example) which raises it’s prices.
plastics themselves are amazing, their great actually it’s their uses as disposable it the real issue
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