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How many plastic water bottles are actually recycled as opposed to discarded in land fills?
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∙ 10y ago
It is estimated that only 6% of plastic water bottles are actually recycled instead of being put in landfills. In 2012 a census found that 33.6 million plastic water bottles ended up in landfills and 2 million were recycled.
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