I've been more and more conscious about microplastics. I was not aware that the laundry and dishwasher pods are just plastic which then goes into the water system.
I'm absolutely in favor of reducing single use plastics, but there's so much plastic in so many things that I can't imagine existing without it. People are rather unreasonably of the "plastic bad" mindset without considering what the alternatives could be.
Not everything can be glass or wood/wood-like substances. Metal has its own environmental concerns. What else is there?