Making less out of plastic would be a good step. Making more out of plastic isn't a good idea.
Making less out of plastic would be a good step. Making more out of plastic isn't a good idea.
The one thing I'm not sure of is food packaging. There's a lot of plastic used in that, but I don't know if we have any alternatives. It's tough to package food because you want much of it to be sealed air-tight. But food packaging does have an advantage because it only has to last as long as the food inside.
Having said that, plastic production itself is a far bigger GHG emitter than burning it. Plastic product production emits 1.5 Gt of CO2e per year while global CO2 emissions are 35 Gt [1]. That's 4% of global emissions coming from plastic production. Incineration is hardly anything in comparison.