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Hmmm, thanks for bringing up those points and clarifying it for me. Hopefully research will pan out ways to make these functional groups efficiently, but as of now we have yet to see. Maybe in the future we could take advantage of genetic engineering and bacteria to produce the groups we need from the raw components...
well micro-fabricators might enable such processes, not all plastics would be a benefit to create. So perhaps a good first step is determining what things would benefit most from plastics and what plastic properties would be needed. That way we would only spend energy of determining the processes for plastics that would actually be beneficial to society.