The US only recycled about 5% of plastic waste last year

Grist
By Joseph WintersMay 4, 2022, 5:34 pm293 pts
By now, many of us have heard the depressing statistic about plastic recycling: Of the 5.8 billion metric tons of plastic waste that the world generated between 1950 and 2015, only about 9 percent has been recycled, leaving the rest to be incinerated, landfilled, or littered directly into the environment. Until…

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