Recycling does help with certain types of plastic

I read numbers from Norway where it says that 1/3 of the plastic that is processed is recycled.

There are also incentives from the government that helps. They add a deposit to every soda bottle sold, that is given back immediately when the bottle is returned for recycling. This incentivises many to return it, because they would otherwise basically throw money in the trash. 92% of all bottles are returned for recycling. Everyone brings their empty bottles and cans to a grocery store, and use the money as partial payment for groceries or participate in a lottery where the profit is given to charity. All stores that sell soda products are required to also process the return, so they are using reverse vending machines to handle this automatically to save time (since the 70s)

Maybe some of the plastic will not be recycled but it will at least be destroyed and not just thrown in the ocean