The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year

That sounds like just what we need. I’ve been reading that recycling plastic is basically a joke foisted on us by the plastic industry so that we won’t demand anti plastic legislation.

when making lunches for my kids years ago I used wax paper and paper bags.I like my peanut butter in glass jars etc.

I hope diabetics can use them. I hope so.

Forests are falling rapidly as well.

Where shall we get enough fertile land, not currently used for food, fiber, lumber, or wildlife habitat, to grow the hundreds of billions of tons of raw material annually?

Short of everyone going vegetarian to free up existing cropland, that is.

Oh, and not in competition for land we want to plant trees on for carbon sequestration.

https://www.avantium.com/

if you want to tell them they're wasting their time...

Without either a massive switch to a plant based diet, or a substantial drop in world population, we simple don't have any extra arable land left. If anything, we need to start restoring farmland to forests and grasslands while we still can, before the soil is too degraded and water resources too depleted.

Biomass as a replacement for oil is a pipe dream.

The Ogallalla Aquifer will fail in the next 30 yr from overpumping and vast parts of the central US breadbasket will be forced back to shortgrass prairie on their own. That's around the same time we're expected to hit 9 billion mouths to feed and serious climate destruction setting in.

Not gonna be much land left for sufficient crops, much less biomass plastic or biofuels.