@riley @angelastella @eniko @gabrielesvelto @cederbs Maybe, but if we did it at the same scale as plastic?

Aluminium mining is _horrible_, environmentally. Whether or not it's worse than oil drilling / plastic production per bauble, I don't know and am not asserting; rather, there is _no_ material that, if used the way we use plastic, would not be an unstoppable _crisis_.

@angelastella @eniko @gabrielesvelto @cederbs Plastic is not a problem.

Consumer culture is a problem.

If we replaced every plastic bottle with an aluminum can, and retained the culture of buying and discarding, it would be even _worse_.

Plastic uniquely facilitates consumer culture because it's the only material _cheap_ enough to use once and throw away.