Recycling is one of the key ways the packaging industry can reduce its carbon footprint. The UK has experienced rapid progress in plastic packaging recycling in recent years and the latest data from Recoup (RECycling of Used Plastics Limited) in its UK Household Plastics Packaging Collection Survey 2011 makes for encouraging reading. In particular, it identifies an increase in the bottle recycling rate, with 48.5 percent of UK plastic bottles now being collected for recycling.
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