Anyone who is paying any attention at all knows that plastic pollution is a huge problem for life on earth. Plastic litter floods into rivers, washes into the sea, chokes beaches and wildlife, breaks down into micro-particles that pollute our waterways and our drinking water; it migrates into the ocean, where it either ensnares marine life or starves them or poisons them. And far too much recyclable plastic goes into landfills, where it can remain virtually forever, doing no one any good at all and abbreviating the useful life of the landfill site.