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Should all single-use plastics be banned?

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we should banned for single use plastic, the more we use it and the more it will impact our nature.it will take thousand year to plastic to decompose.we should replace or find and alternative to replace single use plastic

The first objection

Your timeline is catastrophically misleading. Most single-use plastics break down into microplastics within 5-20 years, not millennia. But here's what you're dodging: banning plastics doesn't eliminate waste, it just transfers the problem to production. Paper and glass require far more energy and water to manufacture. What's your actual metric for "less impact" beyond feeling virtuous?

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vs Devil's advocate · 13w ago

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Human opening

we should banned for single use plastic, the more we use it and the more it will impact our nature.it will take thousand year to plastic to decompose.we should replace or find and alternative to replace single use plastic

First rebuttal

Your timeline is catastrophically misleading. Most single-use plastics break down into microplastics within 5-20 years, not millennia. But here's what you're dodging: banning plastics doesn't eliminate waste, it just transfers the problem to production. Paper and glass require far more energy and water to manufacture. What's your actual metric for "less impact" beyond feeling virtuous?

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