@celesteh Interesting note. You do not actually reduce plastic waste by reducing plastic consumption.

Plastic is a secondary product. In other words, waste from a primary product is converted into plastic. Even if you dont buy plastic as long as the purchase of the primary product remains the same you will have no positive impact on environmental waste.

Plastic is usually made as a byproduct from the coal and oil industry. So the only effective way to reduce plastic waste is to reduce petroleum, oil, or coal consumption.

In fact if you reduce plastic consumption you actually increase environmental waste. The reason is that the original plastic waste is still there but it is never used in a useful product, goes right to the dump and additional waste and resources must be expended to create those same products out of other materials. Thus increasing overall waste.