Re:A historian unpacks the origins of our plastic addiction
by xorfish on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:56AM
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60% is pretty low for PET, Glass isn't recycled perfectly either, but is generally better than PET.
In Switzerland 82% of PET is recycled. (Note that this number is the percentage that is really reused. Not the percentage that is collected.) The same number for glass is 96%. That means only 44% of glass gets recycled 20 times.
However, this is for reuse, not recycling. Not many glass bottles get reused, most get recycled. Recycling glass is less energy efficient than reusing.
In Switzerland 82% of PET is recycled. (Note that this number is the percentage that is really reused. Not the percentage that is collected.) The same number for glass is 96%. That means only 44% of glass gets recycled 20 times.
However, this is for reuse, not recycling. Not many glass bottles get reused, most get recycled. Recycling glass is less energy efficient than reusing.
http://www.swissrecycling.ch/wissen/kennzahlen-und-quoten/