[insaneirish]

There is already an argument that says "let's stop pulling stuff out of the ground purely to burn" and instead use renewable resources. That's a difficult enough argument that lots don't agree with.

Saying "let's burn the plastic" without a plan to stop creating single use plastic creates a backdoor reason and economy to keep using plastic for everything.

[ars]

So basically your suggestion is let's make everything worse in order to hopefully convince people to maybe at some future date make things better.

> without a plan to stop creating single use plastic

Not to mention this is not something that will ever happen. No one is planning for this because it's a bad idea.

Plastics REDUCE CO2 emissions compared to the alternatives. Unless your alternatives are everyone not eat and not do anything, and just sit at home.

A tiny example: Wrapping an English Cucumber in plastic dramatically increases its life. Or you could not do that, but then we'll need to grow 3 to 10 times as many of them, and/or ship them by air to every store.

So what do you choose? The single use plastic? Or the alternative that consumes dramatically more resources, and emits far more CO2?