Reading this makes me angry, and reminds me that there is an already incredibly (and increasingly) lucrative market for repurposing post-consumer plastics as material for modern industrial (and home-based post-industrial) 3d print manufacture. Good food-grade filament is expensive, but with a bit of work you can easily repurpose and re-extrude food-grade plastic for new work. Similar stories exist for PLA and ABS, especially in industrial settings where machines are designed to work with less pure stock. Maybe that should be my next business...

My other question is, when do we start seeing these corporations as unaccountable extra-legal entities who are in a very real sense an enemy of future generations of humans and their prosperity? If we do come to that conclusion, what is the appropriate physical response? Do we begin to protest their plants as aggressively as US citizens protest ICE administration and/or incarceration facilities?