Volume of plastic waste for material recycling Japan 2021, by resin
In 2021, the volume of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for PET bottles that was recycled using the material recycling method amounted to around 530 thousand metric tons in Japan. PET was the type of plastic resin that was used the most for material recycling. Overall, the volume of plastic that was recycled for its materials amounted to about 1.39 million metric tons.