You can turn plastic into 3d printer filament, which can be used to make more stuff, and also, you can break down the polymers into individual atoms so you don't have to deal with them anymore, and you can also make more polymers by individually making a plastic molecule, but that would take a long time. But you can get infinite resources for anything by adding or taking away protons to change what something is; There is actually a way to recycle plastic, 2 actually