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Plastics are amazing materials. Plastics can do things that were impossible before they became common in manufacturing and design.
In some ways this solution (where they use a little less plastic and lie) is better than the much more common plastic laced paper that tries to pretend to be "green" At least with this mess, you can still separate the plastic and paper.
Our school tried to replace plastic cups only to buy fake "green" paper ones with a plastic micro-lining.
@futurebird @gwagner Yeah, plastics are amazing - so much so, in fact, that if they disappeared overnight millions of people would die; we'd be unable to maintain things like food & medicine logistics. This is why "just ge rid of it!" is overly simplistic; we need new materials & processes to replace them.
Also, molecular-recycling plastics is easy, i.e. pyrolysis, but environmentalists hate it for perpetuating plastics & oil & plastic industries hate it because of course they do, so... 
