Plastic packaging municipal waste recycled in the U.S. 1980-2018
packaging waste generated in the United States that year. Plastic packaging includes items such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) film products.
The volume of plastic containers and packaging municipal solid waste (MSW) recycled in the United States amounted to 1.98 million tons in 2018. This represented approximately 13.6 percent of the total plastic containers and