On: Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial...

[Gravityloss]

Wood spatulas are great. They are also cheap. If you have a fireplace, you can even burn them at the end of life so very little waste!

[usea → Gravityloss]

Burning wood in your fireplace is much more certain to harm you than using plastic in your cookware, and the harm is more severe.

[DowagerDave → Gravityloss]

burning garbage doesn't create any waste? You could just put it in your organics/composting...