PET bottles and jars waste generated that year. The U.S. produced a total of 14.53 million tons of plastic packaging waste in 2018.
By weight, the most recycled plastic packaging type in the United States are PET bottles and jars. In 2018, some 910,000 tons of PET bottles and jars were reported as recycled in the U.S. accounting for roughly 29 percent of the total Total volume of plastic containers and packaging MSW recycled in the United States from 1980 to 2018, by product (in 1,000 tons)
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