Are these actual recycling rates, as in the plastic is being taken from the curb, to the appropriate facility, processed and then back to the supply chain as new product. Or are these simple, the amount picked up at the curbside.
Lot of people in France doesn’t recycle because they are lazy, it’s a shame. Big companies should get big fee too , go to a construction site and look at where workers out plastic waste. Shzme
Is this real recycling, or “recycling,” where they just get sent to Turkey and Indonesia for incineration?
And these are 2019, pre-covid values. I guess the numbers are worse in covid times. More stuff, like food, pre-packaged in single use plastic. Huge amount of used masks, not really recyclable.
Czechia stronk :p
It should be compared with the volume per person. 20% of 100kg is better than 60% of 500kg.
Contrary to what people may believe you don’t get much usable plastic from recycling. Sometimes it’s not worth to even use the energy to do so.
>However, since plastics are easily customised to the needs – functional or esthetic – of each manufacturer, the diversity of the raw material complicates the recycling process, making it costly and affecting the quality of the end product. As a consequence, the demand for recycled plastics is growing rapidly, though in 2018 it accounted for only 6% of plastics demand in Europe.
At least half of these countries artificially fake their data by simply selling their trash to poor coountries outside of the EU where it gets eather dumped in the open or burned.
The Indian and Indonesian trash islands are full of european and american trash
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Source: Eurostat
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20211027-2
Regarding Lithuania – unfortunately it seems we are manipulating data. Article in Lithuanian language:
https://www.vz.lt/verslo-aplinka/2019/11/22/statistikos-grimasu-kaina
Malta needs to get their shit together.
Malta just throws it into the sea I guess 😀
Are these actual recycling rates, as in the plastic is being taken from the curb, to the appropriate facility, processed and then back to the supply chain as new product. Or are these simple, the amount picked up at the curbside.
Lot of people in France doesn’t recycle because they are lazy, it’s a shame. Big companies should get big fee too , go to a construction site and look at where workers out plastic waste. Shzme
Is this real recycling, or “recycling,” where they just get sent to Turkey and Indonesia for incineration?
And these are 2019, pre-covid values. I guess the numbers are worse in covid times. More stuff, like food, pre-packaged in single use plastic. Huge amount of used masks, not really recyclable.
Czechia stronk :p
It should be compared with the volume per person. 20% of 100kg is better than 60% of 500kg.
Contrary to what people may believe you don’t get much usable plastic from recycling. Sometimes it’s not worth to even use the energy to do so.
>However, since plastics are easily customised to the needs – functional or esthetic – of each manufacturer, the diversity of the raw material complicates the recycling process, making it costly and affecting the quality of the end product. As a consequence, the demand for recycled plastics is growing rapidly, though in 2018 it accounted for only 6% of plastics demand in Europe.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20181212STO21610/plastic-waste-and-recycling-in-the-eu-facts-and-figures
At least half of these countries artificially fake their data by simply selling their trash to poor coountries outside of the EU where it gets eather dumped in the open or burned.
The Indian and Indonesian trash islands are full of european and american trash