Refusing and Reusing Instead of Recycling

"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.” - Lily Tomlin

We've made another simple change to our behaviors in the hope of reducing our waste and getting the most use out of what we bring home from the store. We're trying to get away from storing foods in plastic containers, even though in the past we reused our plastic (well, the plastic regarded as "safe" for reuse) containers from packaged food. Instead we're trying to switch to either not buying packaged food if we can get away with it. Why not buy whole foods and make our foods from these whole food ingredients? If we buy packaged food (such as tomato-based pasta sauce) we try to buy glass. We're then reusing the glass jars for food storage. Rather than tossing the "unsafe" plastic in the recycling and reusing the "safe" plastic, we're aiming to refuse plastic as much as possible and reuse all of the glass that comes in as much as we can. We'll have to be careful still not to bring home too much glass or we could end up with a deluge of unnecessary glass, which will then just have to go to recycling anyway and then... what's the use?

Thoughts? Is this a better approach for us? Any flaws with this plan? Any ways we can improve?