I'll try on my side below but that goes both ways - where are your figures coming from, and for which country/geography? You also seem to have switched the topi

I'll try on my side below but that goes both ways - where are your figures coming from, and for which country/geography? You also seem to have switched the topic from how much gets recycled to what can be recycled well. This says that the vast majority of plastic globally is not recycled: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution Recycling rate for paper is much, much better, granted, in many countries: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/recycling-rates-paper-and-cardboard?tab=chart&country=~ESP https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/recycling-rates-paper-and... The recycling of metals depends on which metal, of course. In general, IMO there is far too much depressing reading like this - 'An estimated 70–80% of the MSW generated in Africa is recyclable, yet only 4% of MSW is currently recycled': https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/30975/Africa_WMO_Poster.pdf https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/30975/... I can't find any figures that say recycling is a success story across the world, or even economically viable and sustainable across most popular types of waste.