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Global flexible plastic packaging waste destination by select country 2018

Published by Ian Tiseo, Apr 17, 2019

This statistic depicts the distribution of disposal destinations for flexible plastic packaging in 2018, broken down by select countries. In that year, around 9.4 percent of the flexible plastic packaging was recycled in the United States.

Distribution of flexible plastic packaging waste disposal methods in 2018, by select country

Characteristic	Total volume put on the market	Collected	Leakage	Recycling	Energy recovery	Landfill
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Volume of waste not collected is considered "leakage".

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