[alt text: first, there's text over a happy Albinauric from Elden Ring saying "me when I thought recycling would save the world. second, there's text over a sad/depressed Albinauric from Elden Ring saying "me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was both chemically and financially not feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs, and testicles".]
Well yeah. We need to properly dispose of what we can get back from the environment. But that doesn't mean we should keep using it. It should be a case of proving something needs to be plastic, not passing laws to ban one plastic thing at a time.
Oh absolutely. There's a reason that Reduce and Reuse are before Recycle in the Three Rs.