Research Article
A Database Tool for Raising Awareness on the Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Household Packaging Waste
Table 2
Recovery rates per material via the “blue bins” collective system [
12].
| Material | % in the blue bin (by weight) |
| Paper (printed) | 42.0 | Paper (packaging) | 35.3 | Glass | 3.1 | Tin | 2.4 | Aluminum | 0.9 | Plastic | 2.7 | PET bottles | 4.1 | Polyethylene bottles | 2.8 | Polyethylene film | 4.4 | Others | 2.3 |
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