Hiii Slum! This is me:
Recycling (barring that of glass and metals) does exceedingly little to save the planet, both because it's a drop in the bucket, and because anything that's not the aforementioned glass or metals has a very low chance of actually
being recycled after it arrives at a center. If you want to help, compact your non-glass non-metallic trash as tightly as possible and throw it away, and you'll have a better effect on the environment, since it'll go to landfill and not to, say China (or thrown overboard en route). The numbers on the plastics other than like 1 and 2 are not functionally recyclable
at this time, and effectively every single bale of cardboard has destructive waste in it, making even paper or cardboard recycling mostly ineffective. If you desire to reduce plastice waste... stop using plastic to whatever extent you can.
Plastics should probably not even be in use for food and water for
similar reasons to why lead should not be in use, and might have similar (in scale and scope) effects on the 'downstream' ecosystem. At least in landfill, if the landfill is properly sealed, it's more manageable than if it's just thrown overboard somewhere. Plus if the plastic eating microbes actually get going, then it might eventually be broken down in landfill rather than just degrading into microplastics...
Sry to jump on your well wishes there

Not actively
trying to be a downer.
I know that I'm not the first to make this connection, but:
Name checks out
Yes Belle, I'll play doctor with you. I'm doing injections today.
That's quite the mashup! Looks like Harley Quinn+Alice+an angel... izzat right?