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<blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 553930" data-attributes="member: 3165">Heya, Standard D&amp;D fantasy milieu, but set in North America in the far-future, 10K years out or so, after the fall of the technological age of man.&nbsp; Trying to stay light on standard post apocalyptic elements (no mutants, radiation or spray paint).I want artifacts of the current day to be rare, and have gotten good feedback from the folks here on how to explain away the absence of metal and concrete structures.The question is, how do I get rid of all the plastic?&nbsp; I don't want the world to be littered with styrofoam peanuts and plastic sporks or Coke bottles.&nbsp; I want the occasional plastic artifact to throw at the PC's, but given the rather sizeable half-life of plastic, I need to explain away the rest of the current supply of plastic garbage.Some thoughts I've had:Early survivors came to the conclusion that plastic was evil (it is highly magic resistant and would therefore resist divine magic)&nbsp; and destroyed it somehow.&nbsp; But how?&nbsp; Can plastic be converted into a fuel and burned?Early scavengers found all the plastic and converted it to something useful, but not obviously plastic.&nbsp; I am not up on my plastic recycling techniques, but I know milk bottles are used to make Polarfleece, for example.&nbsp; Any recycling scientists out there have the inside scoop on how plastic is recycled?&nbsp; Could these techniques be used in a time of chaos?Variation on the previous: early spellcasters who conquered the plastic-using technologists had some sort of long-lost technique for destroying plastic, and wiped it out.Any other cool ideas?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barcode, post: 553930, member: 3165"] Heya, Standard D&D fantasy milieu, but set in North America in the far-future, 10K years out or so, after the fall of the technological age of man. Trying to stay light on standard post apocalyptic elements (no mutants, radiation or spray paint). I want artifacts of the current day to be rare, and have gotten good feedback from the folks here on how to explain away the absence of metal and concrete structures. The question is, how do I get rid of all the plastic? I don't want the world to be littered with styrofoam peanuts and plastic sporks or Coke bottles. I want the occasional plastic artifact to throw at the PC's, but given the rather sizeable half-life of plastic, I need to explain away the rest of the current supply of plastic garbage. Some thoughts I've had: Early survivors came to the conclusion that plastic was evil (it is highly magic resistant and would therefore resist divine magic) and destroyed it somehow. But how? Can plastic be converted into a fuel and burned? Early scavengers found all the plastic and converted it to something useful, but not obviously plastic. I am not up on my plastic recycling techniques, but I know milk bottles are used to make Polarfleece, for example. Any recycling scientists out there have the inside scoop on how plastic is recycled? Could these techniques be used in a time of chaos? Variation on the previous: early spellcasters who conquered the plastic-using technologists had some sort of long-lost technique for destroying plastic, and wiped it out. Any other cool ideas? [/QUOTE]

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