Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable?
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 5 days ago
At least where I live even the interior lining and lid are now made from cellulose fibers and as such the packaging is (a) fully renewable and (b) the materials can be reused for other paper-esque products.
br3d@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predicted amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
Barbossa404@feddit.de 4 days ago
Making matters worse is that half the statistics that would show the abysmal rate count “thermally recycled” (=burning it) towards the same metric and are thus pretty meaningless.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In Sweden, where I livr, 78.5% of paper packaging put into the market was recycled for materials (as opposed to recycled for energy a.k.a burning it in a power plant)
scb.se/…/atervinning-av-forpackningar-i-sverige/