Have you ever wondered where the packaging you threw in your garbage bin ended up? Or where your water bottle goes after you drink up your cool water? Or what about the coffee cup from your favorite shop. What about the plastic container your strawberries or mushrooms came in?Definitely recycled.. 

Wrong.  It was probably incinerated or it was buried in a landfill where it will never biodegrade but will end up in your food one way or the other.  Plastics do not break down, they break up. They will never leave this earth. Remember that the next time you casually throw bottle out