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"What's more, 92 percent of the bottles recycled yield such high quality material, it can be used again in drink bottles. In some cases, the system has already
by admiral33 6y ago
"What's more, 92 percent of the bottles recycled yield such high quality material, it can be used again in drink bottles. In some cases, the system has already reused the same material more than 50 times."
Also: "Its success is unarguable – 97% of all plastic drinks bottles in Norway are recycled, 92% to such a high standard that they are turned back into drinks bottles. Maldum says some of the material has been recycled more than 50 times already. Less than 1% of plastic bottles end up in the environment." [0]
Just articles I found quickly, my friend who split his time between the US and Norway before the pandemic was telling me about it.
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/12/can-norway-help-us-solve-the-plastic-crisis-one-bottle-at-a-time https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/12/can-norw...
- maxerickson 6y agoWhat do you think "material...used again" and "turned back into" mean there?