[sneak]

I fail to see the harm in this. Who or what is harmed by an inert piece of plastic sitting safely in a landfill?

Edit: this isn’t rhetoric, but a legitimate inquiry.

[asdff]

No one, but that plastic could have been better used and as much new plastic wouldn't have to be produced. Earth is experiencing death by a thousand cuts, lets make it a hundred cuts if we can.

[lopmotr]

If it's about wasting resources (oil) then isn't that already priced into plastics? When oil prices rise higher, these near-frivolous uses of plastics will naturally reduce. Using oil in itself doesn't kill the Earth. It does nothing useful under the ground. You're falling into the common trap anthropomorphizing the Earth and applying human-like feelings to it.

[novok]

There is a leakage issue with plastic waste, and a bunch ends up in the ocean, in the wild where animals eat it, in the water table and so on.

[sneak]

How does my garbage end up in the ocean?