Are Tetra Paks actually recycled?
Assuming my municipality accepts it, are they actually being recycled?
I see them being touted as recyclable. However, it seems like it would be difficult and resource-intensive to recycle but I'm not a recycling expert.
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"can be" is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predict the amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
Making matters worse is that half the statistics that would show the abysmal rate count "thermally recycled" (=burning it) towards the same metric and are thus pretty meaningless.
In Sweden, where I live, 78.5% of paper packaging put into the market was recycled for materials (as opposed to recycled for energy a.k.a burning it in a power plant)
https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/miljo/atervinning-av-forpackningar-i-sverige/