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Plastic recycling is a minefield. Here's why it's so difficult and how we can make it easier (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

And even PET only gets recycled a relatively small percentage of the time.

The industry claims that 9% - 18% of plastic put in recycling bins gets recycled but even that's probably an overstatement. Also they're including the plastic which gets shipped to SE Asia for "recycling" - but once it gets there it's actually landfilled because that's cheaper than recycling. So the amount of actual plastic recycling which actually occurs is probably negligible.

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