• zik@aussie.zone
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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.