Plastic is a meaningful product, NoName. Just look at how many things can only be made because of plastics!
To wit:
* Your flatscreen monitor uses plastics for the pixels, the wiring, and the backlight tubes (LEDS), and the circuit boards.
* Your computer uses plastics for the drive media, the wiring, the processor and other chip cases, the motherboard and any daughter cards you have plugged into it,
* You have plastic clothing. You have plastic interiors for your house. The paint you paint it with is plastic.
* The car you drive has plastic parts for the interior, electronics, HVAC, and engine components, including all the circuit boards and components mounted on them.
* Plastics are light and durable, making them ideal for interiors on aircraft, from Cessna 150's to Boeing 747's.
* Plastics are part of every pane of safety glass, used in cars, homes, etc; and they've saved a lot of lives.
* Plastics are ideal for use in the body, such as pacemakers, ear implants and aids, etc.; since the body does not know how to consume certain types of plastics.
* Plastic safety glasses protect your eyes from some pretty severe hazards.
* Plastic hardhats are very effective protection from smaller falling objects, such as are common around work zones.
Plastic IS made in America, and even mostly in the United States. The United States leads the world in production of plastics. Many plastics were INVENTED in the United States.