American consumers are heroes--not villains--in the fight against plastics pollution of our oceans.

The single largest state employing them remains my home state of California, where 80,000 Californians are directly employed in the plastics industry.

American consumers are heroes, not villains, in this fight against plastic pollution of our oceans.

It's clear that we need to reduce plastic pollution.

I would like to know what are the plastics critics proposing as an alternative to plastic containers that they haven't already rejected over the years.

Blaming America first seems to be a recurring theme, but the facts paint a very different picture.

So, once again, it is blame America first, let's harm the American consumer, even though the American consumer is responsibly disposing plastic products, and without any alternative. That, to me, sounds almost childlike.

I have not heard a single alternative offered by the critics of plastics. And I think it has become very clear that plastics we have found to be a far better solution, economically and environmentally, to the materials that we have used in…

Isn't that an indication of how useful plastic has become in our daily lives?

America accounts for less than 1 percent of plastic marine pollution.

So, at this juncture in our technology and science and advancement of our civilization, plastics are the most environmentally friendly alternative that we have, if we are to engage in the commerce that makes our civilization possible, is…