karlcow, French > Hardly any plastics can be recycled. […] Between 1990 and 2015, some 90 percent of plastics either ended up in a landfill, were burned, or leaked into the environment. Another recent study estimates that just 5 to 6 percent are successfully recycled. — https://newrepublic.com/article/179267/recycling-doesnt-work-plastics-industry-knew
Living in #Japan is a constant struggle for this. Not many options to escape it.