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twack3r t1_ittr07k wrote

Reply to comment by mirhagk in Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse by chrisdh79

55.2% in 2019.

Source in German:

https://deutsche-recycling.de/blog/recyclingquote-deutschland-vergleich/

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mirhagk t1_ittrcfz wrote

Thanks! Yeah that looks like the right figure and matches up with what I've seen (which suggested about half was recycled).

That's a pretty good rate, definitely happy to see it. I suspect part of it is that North America had built their recycling programs based on the cheap return voyage to asia for container ships, and that fell apart. Germany wouldn't have designed around that.

But also do have to give props to Germany. They definitely do a lot of things really well, and glad to see this is one of them.

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