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Less than 10 percent of the plastic used across the world is recycled, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report found that 460 million tonnes of plastics were used in 2019, nearly double the amount in 2000. It comes comes less than a week before the UN Environment Assembly begins on February 28 in Nairobi, where formal talks are expected to begin on a future international plastics treaty, the scope of which will be discussed.
The average European creates about five tonnes of waste every year, of which only 36 per cent is recycled. But these robots’ makers say that this number could be boosted if the hazardous job of waste sorting is handed over to machines.