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How Much of the World’s Plastic Waste Actually Gets Recycled?

This chart breaks down plastic waste disposal, showing just how little recycling is happening at the global level.
Nick Routley (Visual Capitalist)
#plastic #recycling
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Aladár Mézga
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No, not quite. "Plastic" is a term for a wide range of materials and only a few of them can be recycled. You will find the recycling logo with a number in it on a lot of packaging, but that doesn't mean that packaging can be recycled. The manufacturers are deliberately misleading consumers.

And what gets recycled can only be used for a number of applications, it's usually not possible to manufacture the same items again from their recycled material, as the molecule structure gets weakened.

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Adam Hunt
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Adam Hunt
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No here we make things like park benches from one grade of recycled plastic!
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Thomas Bensler
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we make things like park benches from one grade of recycled plastic!


That is exactly what he is talking about: downcycling. True recycling would be making new yogurt cups from used ones.

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Adam Hunt
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Well according the labelling I see on some plastic, quite a bit of that is done as well.
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Aladár Mézga
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Yogurt cups from recycled plastic? That would be a first for me. To my knowledge it's always downcycling, since the material degrades with each "cycle" and the colour can only go darker. Plus, a number of materials can't even be "recycled", despite the logo.
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Adam Hunt
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Well the labelling can be misleading. In some cases plastics can be recycled, but just not where you live. We have had that issue with Styrofoam.
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Aladár Mézga
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That "can be recycled, but not where you live" usually means shipping it to somewhere cheap (The PRC stopped taking plastic garbage a few years back, so now it should be mainly Africa.), where it gets either put into a landfill or distributed by the wind. If we don't have the technology, neither do others.
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Adam Hunt
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In the case of Styrofoam we found it was recyclable in the SW US, but was not cost effective to ship it there. Personally I would have followed that up with a complete ban.
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I personally don't like it very much either, but it appears to be still in use in Germany and in Taiwan I can hand it to the recycling truck. But I have no idea what happens with it.
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