Environment & Energy

is criminal. In many cases, containers made of substances other than plastic could safely be used; and in many cases, more plastic is used than needed in order to deceive consumers (think pill bottles & other containers with volumes only 20 - 50% of which actually contain the desired product).

Congress could easily regulate packaging, if they weren't in the pockets of big corporations.

It's high time we stopped allowing corporations to externalize the costs and damage they cause, much of which can never be fully remedied even if the abusive activities that caused the costs or damage were heavily taxed.