Kitchen light makeover
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I’ve build and installed a lot of light boxes familiar to what you got going on here on your ceiling! Today though there’s much better improved fluorescent lights that don’t have ballast boxes to deal with at all. Including LED light fixtures as well! So you might want to look into better safer lighting fixtures rather than using the old design fixtures?
As far as your plastic goes, you can get new plastic in many different designs. But also check to see how long it’s guaranteed not to yellow? There’s plastic that’s guaranteed to not yellow for 20 years if I’m remembering correctly? Been a long time since I had to buy any of this plastic! This style faded out a long time ago in housing with all the new lighting available these days! It’s always possible if you wanted to go to the work of taking this all down and doing some touch up to finish your ceiling that you could do away with this lighting system all together and put up new modern lighting too! You not necessarily stuck with your same lighting system if you’re tired of it?