@pixx The damage from bauxite mining is far shorter-term than the damage from throwing plastic around. The biosphere has experience with these things, and can remediate the wasteland within a couple of centuries even if humans don't really do anything to clean up after themselves.Also, aluminium is recyclable. The cans that don't get thrown out can be pretty much endlessly recycled, with only new energy needing to be put in. Plastic could eventually get there, but right now, it can, at best, pass through a few re-plasticisations until it will become better to burn it than to try to convert it. Carbon chains can be hairy that way. @angelastella @eniko @gabrielesvelto @cederbs