in recent years,numerous groups have offered counsel on how to be good environmentalists. Although well-intentioned,the advice is too often wasted on little more than uncritical acceptance of such core beliefs as recycle is good. From the perspective of the total environment,the advice is definite wrong. Those who follow it may actually end up harming the environment more than if they were to ignore it altogether. Here is one of the common myths :Plastics are bad. To most proposals of green consumerism,an aluminium container is best,glass second and plastic the worst. however,returning to the economic and environment research organisation california futures, of all non-recycled containers, plastic takes the least energy to manufacture