[ars]

Plastic dishes are not hurting the environment. This is 100% about appearances, it's actually helping anything at all.

[red-iron-pine]

Microplastics are everywhere, and you can't use those plastic dishes without some of them coming off -- into water, into the air, and into your food (and therefore your body).

Microplastics are absolutely hurting the environment, and are contributing to things like endocrine disruption.

[ars]

That's not true. Microplastics are not coming from dishes. They are coming from fabrics, and from litter.