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Don't use whataboutism to shirk your responsibilities. Recycling properly is a good and necessary thing. Though it'd be more effective to create less waste in the first place.
Recycling plastic is mostly bollocks by numbers. To go by EU figures at best slightly over half of it even is recycled, of which 35% is thermically recycled i.e. burned. Another 1,3 Million tonnes which I can't be arsed to manually calculate the numbers for get "shipped for processing" i.e. end up in a landfill / ocean / slum someplace else.