Growth in UK plastic packaging recycling being shipped abroad, including to non-OECD countries
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
This also means that just short of 1 million tonnes of plastic has been sent to Turkey for recycling since 2017. This amounts to 155,000 tonnes sent to non-OECD countries, 15,000 of which was to European Union (EU) Member States Bulgaria and Romania, and the remaining sent to a combination of countries in non-EU Europe, Asia and Egypt.
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