• WaterWaiver@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR:

    • Clear PET: sure!
    • All other plastics: probably wont’ get recycled. Maybe a few % as a downcycled product.

    I believe the rates for paper and glass are much better.

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      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.