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2005 recycling rates around the world had the United States at 32%, Britain at 27%, while Austria and the Netherlands were in the 60% range.

Posted by envirostats on Monday, June 11, 2007

Britain has more than doubled its rate in the past 3 years. San Francisco leads all of the US, and possibly world, at 69% recycling.

Recycling in Canada tend to be talked about in terms of kg per capita rather than percentage, probably because the former can be more reliably counted among the waste disposed rather than requiring an estimate of that and how much might have been disposed to obtain a percentage.

- Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), via The Economist

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« The average American generated 800 kg of municipal waste in 2005, compared to 577 kg per person in Western Europe.
Recycling aluminium can reduce energy consumption by as much as 95%. Savings are about 70% for plastics, 60% for steel, 40% for paper and 30% for glass. »