Plastic must be reduced. The best way to do that is to wash and re-use what you already have.

The best way to do that is for the manufacturers to stop producing it. The Recycling Myth is where the onus is placed on the consumers rather than the assholes who produce this shit in the first place. The bottom line is there should be none of this rubbish to recycle! It's up to governments to act on this; to either do something about it, or don't, but either way stop feeding domestic consumers all this bullshit about recycling.