Thanks, very interesting! We might not need sugar, but we certainly crave it, and have done for a long time. Could the world's hunger for plastics be satisfied by annual sugar cane production?

Don't worry about it Cody, Alan lives in his own little fantasy world, filled with all the Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon super gear, not yet actually invented.

I wonder if he can tell us the advantage of wastefully flaring off all the ethylene gas now used for plastics production, then growing sugar cane to replace the raw material so wasted.

Yep plastics are great. Last night as I put some leftover fried tomato into a plastic clip lock container, & stretched some glad wrap over left over whipped cream from my scones, jam & cream, I wondered how many lives had been saved, or made much less painful, by the availability of clean airtight PLASTIC containers to safely save our food.

Talk about a con job. The supermarkets now sell us plastic bin liners, rather than give us shopping bags to do the job. It is a loss/loss action in every way. Those bin liners are thicker to justify selling them. We now throw out more plastic with our single use plastic bin liners, than we ever did with single use reused shopping bag liners.

Has there ever been a greenie initiative that did not produce a worse result than the pretend problem, due to unintended consequences, with these dumb clowns.

Meanwhile:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-health-pollution-waste-microplastics

"Plastic is fantastic".

Shock horror!

So much so, that Labor now wants to eliminate the use of single-use plastic bags. This is despite the absence of cost-benefit analysis to justify such a draconian move.

Come on Daffy do you really believe that greenie crap? I was in the plastics raw material industry for many years. Our biggest problem was UV & other degradation. It was a very short time in the sun before our lovely strong glossy material was very much the worse for wear.

Hundreds of millions were spent trying to improve the weathering of our materials, with out as much success as we really need.

Those wast heaps could easily be converted into power house fuel, if any interest actually existed other than in greeny sensation mags.

Those islands of plastic waste out in the pacific is another con job by our greenie mates. When real people went looking for them, they could only find any plastic by dragging ultra fine mesh through the crystal clear water.

I am surprised that you are so easily fooled.

Singaporeans are of course way more switched on than our Gits !
https://youtu.be/Dei_duocsu4