This "eco friendly" "climate change" "carbon footprint" is all just fancy word play bullshit. We need to go back to simply recycling. I always thought it was amazing having grown up in NY how other states didn't even recycle aluminum cans or sort their trash. We never really ever quite won the battle of properly recycling as a nation. If you have never been to the beaches of California... Well there is particulates of plastic now as we speak rolling with the crush of the waves slowly turning into plastic beads of sand for thousands of miles of coastline. It's kind of amazing you can tell what certain plastics we're that aren't fully broke down. Mountain dew cap, m&m wrapper, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi etc. Pretty much every you would see in the check out section with the candy and soda. Sure you can blame it on the Chinese or shipping containers falling into the ocean however a mass recycling effort as a species would do this earth a lot of good without having to cull the herd of humanity which still won't fix the pollution and recycling problem.