What do you think is the future of Plastic?

Question

What do you think is the future of Plastic?

Answer 1

Will be forever.

Answer 2

Biodegradable plastic can be made with most plants. I think that's the future of plastic.

Answer 3

Unless some brilliant chemist learns how to

make plastics out of something other than

petro-chemicals, there will be NO future

for plastics.

  (One of the ingredients of plastics (as we

know it today) is petroleum....petroleum is

made out of crude oil.)

Answer 4

Now that scientists have found ways to break down plastics back into oils and gas using certain processes like plasma gasification.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/plasma-...

Plastics can be treated like organics, also.

There are also new technologies to turn certain plastics and rubbers back into usable oil.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2...

So plastics arent as bad as people thought. They might not be biodegradable but they are destructable with no pollution.

Plastics arent going anywhere anytime soon but that doesnt mean theres not a place in the market for biodegradable plastics, although the impacts of those arent really well studied yet.