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More than half of the plastic collected for recycling in the EU is later exported to be treated. (Photo: Human Rights Watch)

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Most packaging waste remains unrecycled as EU face's plastic crisis

With over half of the plastic packaging waste still not being recycled in the EU, institutions are taking measures to address the ecological disaster around plastic management.

Only 41 percent of the plastic packaging waste produced in the EU was recycled in 2022, the bloc's statistical office Eurostat ...

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