KevinAre Tetra Paks actually recyclable?
IceAt least where I live even the interior lining and lid are now made from cellulose fibers and as such the packaging is (a) fully renewable and (b) the materials can be reused for other paper-esque products.
“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predicted 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 livr, 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)
Återvinning av förpackningar i Sverige
År 2022 var vi bäst på att återvinna pantburkar av aluminium, glas, aluminium (inklusive pantburkar) samt järnbaserad metall (stål). De förpackningar som inte går till materialåtervinning hamnar främst i soporna och går till energiåtervinning.