Plastic -a menace?

Plastics fall into many types - everything from almost indestructible teflons to biodegradable corn starch based material. They are ubiquitous in our society, consume a lot of our resources in their manufacture and present significant waste handling problems. Whether plastic is a menace or not depends how we use it an how we dispose of it minimizing the impacts on the environment.
Plastics are made from hydrocarbons. Their manufacture takes a slice of the overall hydrocarbon supply available to the world. Ongoing energy and process economic changes ensure that these products are made more efficiently.
Fortunately the "indestructible" nature of plastics make them easiiy recyclable if they can be segregated into discrete types after consumer use. Even mixed plastics can be physically compressed and bonded into replacment "lumber" for construction and other uses. Ultimately even badly degraded or contaminated plastics can be used for fuel.
Present disposal methods (as opposed to recycling) leave much to be desired. Landfilling of plastics into properly designed disposal sites takes up valuable room in the site for a non-toxic, non-leachable, non-decomposable material. Disposal as litter on land or in the water can cause unsightly accumulations that interfere with plant and animal life.
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plastic is type of rubber band like thing it is very difficult to destory it