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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And yes, I know a lot of them aren’t actually recycled but end up at a landfill all the same

Really? Got a source on that? I know that we're still not that good in recycling plastics in general, But last time I checked the quota of PET recycling was quite high.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Thanks to the deposit-return system, recycling rates for PET bottles in Germany are indeed very high. Over 97% actually (which is quite awesome). Still leaves a few percent that aren’t, which is still a lot of plastic but we’re way above average.

In the USA for example, only about a third of PET bottles get actually recycled. The rest heads to the landfill or the burner.

For the yellow bag in Germany btw. (our trash system for plastic and compound packaging, tin cans, aluminium foil, etc.), the recycling rate is about two thirds in total.