As recently as last year, denouncing plastics was a key part of RFK Jr.’s political identity. Running for president as an icon of the health-conscious, he called plastic pollution a “crisis for human health and the environment.” He promised to support an international plastics reduction treaty and to limit the domestic production of plastic. He castigated President Biden for failing to fix the problem. He espoused ambitious solutions to the problem, alarming the plastics industry . Now, RFK’s