New Study Finds Fewer than 6% of US Plastics are Recycled
A new report from Beyond Plastics finds that only 6% of plastics in the US are recycled annually. A report recently published by the nonprofit Beyond Plastics has found that only 6% of plastics in the US are recycled. As far back as 2014, the US was recycling just under 10% of plastics, but that amount has been cut in half to somewhere between 5% - 6%. On top of the sharp decrease in recycling,…