US plastic recycling rate drops to close to 5% - Report - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The report by environmental groups Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics shows the recycling rate has dropped from 8.7% in 2018, the last time the Environmental Protection Agency published recycling figures.

China and Turkey have since implemented plastic import bans and other countries set plastic waste contamination limits under the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments, which the United States did not ratify in 2019. The agency received funding from the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last year to support local waste management infrastructure and recycling programmes.

The recycling rate is falling as plastic waste generation soars in the United States, the report said.

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