Washington DC has banned styrofoam containers for food and drinks.

As usual, plastic companies lobbied against this step forward. You would think that some stockholders would be wise enough to say, "People will always want plastic, and we can go along with selling it over a longer period of time to keep our rivers and seas clean." I suspect that the corporation structure systematically leads executives to be extremists: to demand to maximize their profits no matter what the cost to society.

Perhaps some reorganization of the structure of a corporation could alter that tendency. That would a great thing.