So, interesting thread regardless of it's Genesis. Plastics use as regards health is a valid concern. Plastics use as regards the health of the environment is a valid concern. There isn't tons that any individual can do about plastics in the environment, but there is a lot you can do about plastics in you! Whether you need to worry about it or not depends a lot on how old you are right now. Because of my work I get to meet more 100+ year old individuals than most. For a lot of reasons they didn't always have the best health practices. Many were/are downright self-destructive. Didn't/doesn't matter. Here they are, 100 years old anyway. Some still drive! For fully half their lives the environment was pretty free of truly nasty materials. Quite a few smokers and hard drinkers have lived to be 100 and beyond but there won't be any more!

If you are what is called a 'Boomer' in 2025 you are about at the limit for where the need to be concerned about lifestyle choices matters. Every decade younger than the magic Century mark means you spent more years in a polluted environment with your body in active (and hyper-active) metabolism. A Senior like myself, raised on the East Coast ... cooked. I won't impact overall future health risk by limiting plastics exposure. It literally is what it is. A Millenial and younger absolutely should stay away from bottled water/soft drinks, and invest in high quality water filtration and upgrade the washing machine to one that filters out plastic particles. HEPA filters on the HVAC unit is not going overboard.