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Sweden recycles 24,000 t of used plastic packaging in 2002
Swedish material recovery and recycling group Plastkretsen (www.plastkretsen.se), Stockholm, claims to have mechanically recycled some 24,000 t of used plastic packaging in 2002. Another 26,000 was incinerated for energy generation and an additional 40,000 t was mixed with ordinary household waste to provide district heating. In Sweden, transport and industrial packaging, as well as consumer waste, bears the green recycling dot.
05.06.2003 Plasteurope.com [14561]
Published on 05.06.2003