Alan Lowenthal actually said...

the global life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from conventional plastics which were produced in 2015 were 1.8 billion metric tons of carbon...

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans each year at a rate of about one garbage truck per minute.

It is imperative that the companies that manufacture and sell these products take ownership of their environmental impacts.

Certainly, single-use plastics have made life easier. But these materials come at a much higher cost than many would like to admit.