Nobody's forcing you to buy products in plastic bottles. It would actually be better if you didn't. "Technology and progress" are so far producing mountains of trash and pollution that you're privileged to not have to see, unlike those children in Africa, and other impoverished places where your garbage washes up. You're proud of winning the lottery. Have some self-awareness.

I’m proud of living in a world of comfort that every generation before me has suffered through hell to accomplish.

The solution to children in Africa suffering isn’t me living worse or even me beating myself up for “my privilege”.