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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by blattimwind on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:03PM (#19410966)
Glass water and beer bottles are reused, thick-walled PET water bottles are reused, while most plastic (mostly PET) bottles and all cans are, at best, recycled.

For other and broken glass items there are glass containers pretty much everywhere, broken up by color (white glass, brown glass, green glass). Plastics delivered by consumers are separated but never recycled.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by fkistner on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:50PM (#19411189)
Assuming we are still talking about Germany, yes, plastics collected via "Der Grüne Punkt" (engl. the green dot, named after the label on the packing) are in fact commonly reused.

According to official figures about 51% of plastics are recycled, 38% is burned [1].

[1]: https://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/129/1712978.pdf

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