Something to ponder

Something occurred to me last night as I was falling asleep. (I think of these things at the oddest times).
I was thinking about the reuse part of "reduce reuse recycle". If everyone kept things to reuse in their homes, for example plastic bottles, then they would have to get more oil out of the ground to make new plastic (which would be bad for the environment) because they don't have as much recycled plastic to work with because everyone is keeping it. And if everyone did it with cans, they wouldn't have as much recycled metal to work with and they would have to mine more metal from the ground, which damages the environment. The same is true for paper and cutting down trees.
If everyone recycled everything they bought, then they would only have to take a little oil or metal from the earth to make new plastic or cans because they have so much recycled stock to work with.

I think a lot more emphasis should be put on "reduce" and "recycle" than on "reuse".