Don_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 3 months agoTIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square179arrow-up11.02Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.01Karrow-down1external-linkTIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square179
minus-square@A_Random_IdiotlinkEnglish3•3 months agothats globally, though, in America its only about half that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoYea I was about to mention. Japan is probably propping up that number since they recycle pretty much everything.
minus-square@just_another_personlinkEnglish8•edit-23 months agoNoooooo, noooooo. Where’d you hear that? Japan packages EVERY.THING. in plastic. They have a plastic problem, actually. Edit: downvote all you want, but: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/publication_documents/pub/reportchapter/en/12341/PlasticAtlasAsia2022_en_WEB_1.pdf
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoYea I’m aware they use plastic for everything, but they also recycle everything possible. https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00252.html
thats globally, though, in America its only about half that.
Yea I was about to mention. Japan is probably propping up that number since they recycle pretty much everything.
Noooooo, noooooo. Where’d you hear that?
Japan packages EVERY.THING. in plastic. They have a plastic problem, actually.
Edit: downvote all you want, but: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/publication_documents/pub/reportchapter/en/12341/PlasticAtlasAsia2022_en_WEB_1.pdf
Yea I’m aware they use plastic for everything, but they also recycle everything possible.
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00252.html