Recycling und Entsorgung

Recycling plastic is not enough to beat the global waste crisis - we need more new ways to make food packaging including using more compostable materials.

 

Textile recycling can help reduce landfill space pollution from dyes and chemicals and improve working conditions for garment workers.

 

Every year humans produce over 300 million tons of plastic waste and only a small fraction of this is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills and oceans.

 

In the circular economy scenario which includes reducing waste and increasing recycling the estimated costs would be less than $255 billion a year. This circular approach would prevent ?runaway waste management costs? and also deliver a ?vastly better environmental performance ? the report?s authors say.

 

These 25 recycling facts and statistics show the state of plastic paper aluminum glass electronic and food recycling and the progress the world has to make.

 

A group of multinationals backed by Egypt's government have created a plastic recovery scheme which rewards informal collectors through digital credits.