But the profligate use of plastics is increasingly coming under fire as the microfibres of clothing and cheap wrapping materials is increasingly being found in food chains, of which we are a dependant species.
That's an argument more for sensible use of plastics (or rather, not putting plastics into everything just because you can) than an argument against plastic at all.
It's a bit like Diesel engines, they're brilliant and have their place but that place is tractors and heavy machinery, not city cars. Plastic has it's places, but it isn't fast food packaging or clothes