Global flexible plastic packaging waste destination by select country 2018

Published by Ian Tiseo, Feb 6, 2023
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

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February 2019

Region

Germany, Philippines, United States

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

Volume of waste not collected is considered "leakage".

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