Why are they never going away? Every use you list there is specific to centralized, industrial agriculture. That's a modern invention that could absolutely be rolled back if people grow more of their own food and buy locally what they can't do themselves.
Humans made it very, very long without plastics and PFAS. Are we really to assume that a few decades with them and we'll never go back, by choice or otherwise?
Humans made it very, very long without plastics and PFAS. Are we really to assume that a few decades with them and we'll never go back, by choice or otherwise?