The true long term solution is eliminating plastic. Back in the iron age there were glass bottles used to distribute milk and they were returned to be used again. Of course this system is more complicated and expensive than trucking in oil and turning it into single use containers so it’ll never happen before the world is burned.

A few years ago there was this effort to abandon disposable containers entirely, so you were encouraged to carry a durable reusable container instead. Whatever happened to that?