But it is the variety of polymers that make them so bad. Surely, it is better to standardize to one material (or rather, standardize for the recycling process), than to ban the whole class of materials altogether.

I believe innovation would be encouraged by the incentive to capture a market for a specific use case with an innovation in either process, material, or diminished environmental impacts.

Corporations (and citizens) need to be accountable for making decisions that go against societies best interests - the current infatuation with profit at all costs is eerily similar to the proliferation of cells at all costs in cancer.

Not in the case of the comment you're replying to, where the use is to carry a specific size of soda and the function is to not spill the soda. I don't mind advancements in soda bottle technology being slow and careful, even if it gives an advantage to the Chinese.