Unfortunately, the reality is probably just that plastic itself is bad, and you can put different lipsticks on the pig and some of them are less bad than others, but you're not really solving the problem. Of course I agree that we should avoid putting known awful chemicals in things and I will lobby for that to happen, but the easiest thing in my life to control is what I do.

Takeout is a luxury. In my experience, the best thing to do is focus on the things you can control. And for whatever reason, luxuries tend to be the source of a lot of these problems and easy to cut out. This is especially the case when you consider that odds are dangerous chemicals will be replaced with chemicals not yet known to be dangerous.

At the end of the day, a lot of our problems come down to consumption and convenience. How many people got cancer because nonstick was a tiny bit more convenient?

Unfortunately, novel, useful substances are pretty much always going to be destructive to the biosphere in some way.