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Recycling of plastic bags can be another method of phase-out. ... between 74 and 90% in South Africa, Belgium, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., Santa Barbara, the UK and ...
Currently (2023), the international recycling network includes 13 plants, including 4 joint ventures, in 9 countries: Germany, Italy, Mexico, Austria, Poland, Romania, Spain, South Africa and Thailand. The installed and projected annual recycling capacity worldwide is 266,000 tons of recycled PET (rPET) and 84,000 tons of recycled HDPE (rHDPE). [5]
Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [1] [2] [3] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. [4] [5] [6] Recycling rates lag behind those of other recoverable materials, such as aluminium, glass and paper.
Since 2016 China ceased importing plastics for recycling and since 2019 international treaties signed by 187 countries restricted the export of plastics for recycling. [68] [69] A 2019 study calculated the mismanaged plastic waste, in millions of metric tonnes (Mt) per year: 52 Mt – Asia; 17 Mt – Africa; 7.9 Mt – Latin America & Caribbean
The group has been criticized for promoting a reduction of plastic waste rather than a reduction in plastic production. [7] Moreover, the 5-year recycling target of 15 million tonnes is only 0.8% of the 1.8 billion tonnes of plastic waste production, and the actual recycling of plastic waste during 2019-2021 was only 4 thousand tonnes, compared ...
The trade in plastic waste has been identified as the main cause of marine litter. [a] Countries importing the waste plastics often lack the capacity to process all the material. As a result, the United Nations has restrictions on the trade of waste plastic trade unless it meets certain criteria. [b]
The other four garbage patches include the North Atlantic garbage patch between the North America and Africa, the South Atlantic garbage patch located between eastern South America and the tip of Africa, the South Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of South Africa. [8]
The movement has since grown in South Africa, with organizations like Waste-ED, founded by Candice Mostert, who works both in Zambia and Cape Towns surrounds to educate people about plastic and its value, and the architect Ian Dommisse as the Ecobrick Exchange.