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At this point plastic is probably more available than clay. Especially if Kenya is one of those countries we send our "recycling" to, that usually just ends up in open pit third world landfills.
It depends on the area for sure, but mud works for bricks too in parts. Some of the ancient world was built with mud bricks, I think mesopatamia for instance, like babylon, was thought to be mostly mud bricks.
The plastic is toxic is the problem, full of toxic additives that get released in any sort of processing, the best case for used plastic is to put it somewhere out of rain and sun. It sucks, but the best thing to do is make less in the future. Unfortunately we are making exponentially more plastic all the time. It's really incredible how society really dropped the facade we had these last 30 years and showed itself to be, well, what you are looking at.