No solution that involves plastic is a solution.

Plastics can cause diseases by contaminating the food and drinks they contain. Let us keep this aside for a moment.

Recycling\reusing requires a lot of infrastructure and political will. This may work well in Western nations. What about the third world? I can assure you it will not. Third world polluting the waterways will have consequences for Western nations too. Pollution may begin as a local problem, but it always becomes global sooner than later.