Volume of plastics recycled in Australia FY 2019, by destination

Published by L. Granwal, Apr 2, 2022
In financial year 2019, approximately 190.7 thousand metric tons of recyclable plastics in Australia were sent directly overseas while 151.3 thousand metric tons of recovered plastics were locally reprocessed to local use.

Volume of plastics recycled in Australia in financial year 2019, by destination (in 1,000 metric tons)

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Release date

March 2020

Region

Australia

Survey time period

financial year 2019

Number of respondents

71 reprocessing facilities

Supplementary notes

Values have been rounded.

Australia's financial years run from July to June of the following year. For example, FY 2017 starts on July 1, 2016 and ends on June 30, 2017.

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