I don't know why but when most my friends throw away a plastic bottle they automatically think to throw it in the trash. When I throw away a plastic bottle I always been conditioned to put it in recyclable bin. I recommend before you throw something away to please always think about if the item is recyclable or can even be reused. Little things like this is what we need to save our planet.

https://www.epa.gov/recycle/recycling-basics#Benefits

i think recycling is a very important thing many people myself included forget to do or neglect to do out of laziness or not thinking to do it at the time. there are millions of pounds of trash all over the world and recycling could be a start to fixing that

I completely agree with that, I think that gradually starting recycling for those who have never done it could help our planet, we must sort our waste well and thus save our planet.  it will not happen overnight, of course, but we are changing our habits little by little we can do great things

You can reuse the plastic, but it harms the health of a person because some plastics are not able to take the heat making the chemical come out and will be harmful to drink from the plastic bottle.

I've never understood this either. Plastic has proven to be harmful to the environment, especially the ocean. Over 300,000  marine animals are being harmed or killed due to the amount of plastic in the ocean. This harm can be caused by many different factors such as ingestion of the plastic or an entanglement in plastic debris.

Citation:
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazi … eat-oceans