Seems like a pretty easy problem to solve if you ask me:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...

Someone should send this link to Trump and Elon Musk so America and the EU can slap some actual serious and economy-breaking tariffs on those countries. I know that sounds snarky and drastic and funny and off-topic, but we seriously need actual serious politicians that just get shit done. We've tried the "reasonable politicians" approach so far, maybe it's time to bring in people that are unpalatable but actually willing to break shit and blockade some actual evil people and countries around the world in order to make positive change.

There seems to be a high correlation with people who are enthusiastic about breaking things to enable "simple" solutions, being legislative blockaders (instead of negotiators) of forming good policy from/with others, and not caring about external costs to the point of making that a vocal policy point.

A lot of damage is done in the name of real problems, associated with high frustration, leveraged politically.