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> Recycling is a lie for plastics, plastics can not be economically recycled.

That is simply not true, just go to most of Europe. In Switzerland 83% of PET bottles get recycled. 0% ends up directly in landfills.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/fact-check_is-switzerland-the-w...

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How much of the plastic packaging is PET?

For bottles it is probably the majority. Followed by glas for beer and wine and aluminum cans.

For the rest, plastic contains a good amount of energy. You can burn it and recover some energy from it. It also reduces the volume of the waste by 80%.

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