[tmaly]

I am not sure if we will ever purge nature of them.

But we could reduce them going forward with better packaging science and use of biodegradable plastics.

[stevenwoo]

We are on an exponential curve of deployment of plastic because it’s cheap, anything else would require research time and money https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-pla....

[avmich]

We may (much) better control their renewal (control on new production) and employ some good "enemy", like a microorganism(s) feeding on (some of) them. It's not an easy problem for sure.

[legitster]

> use of biodegradable plastics

Depending on the type of biodegradable plastic, part of it's degradation process would be to break down into small pieces of microplastics.