This is a great thought provoking write up. The title grabbed my attention because just yesterday I was talking to family asking that they think twice about the convenience of plastic. Something along the lines of "choose not to buy those cookies in the grocery store that are in that big plastic package." We live on the coast and get to see how the liter - a large part of which is packaging from convenience foods - turn into microplastics, which are going into our fish, and ultimately into us. Anyway, trash is just one of the evils of a convenient life, as you have outlined here.