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Sadly, recycling isn't as effective as one might think. For example, only a small subset of the plastic you put in the plastic recycling bin will actually be recycled.
Does this mean you shouldn't bother? No, but it gives all the more reason to try to use less plastic to begin with.
Cans and glass are infinitely recyclable. Recycling aluminum saves 96% of the energy of producing new.
Paper is semi recyclable, but it degrades, so it can only go through the process a certain number of times.
Plastic is marginally recyclable. Only about 10% of plastic that goes into a recycling bin gets recycled. It was a hoax by petro-chem to make plastic seem more sustainable than it is.
That 10% is going to be country specific, much higher plastic recycle rates are possible and are already happening in some countries.
In the eu about 40% of plastic packaging waste gets recycled, but with significant differences per country: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20181212STO21610/plastic-waste-and-recycling-in-the-eu-facts-and-figures
Slovakia and Belgium are/were the eu's best performers in 2022. When looking for more general figures for Belgium, instead of only packaging, I found that 38.6% of plastic waste was recycled and 59.8% was used for energy generation, while the rest ended up in a landfill. https://plasticseurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CircularEconomy_nationalinfographics_2024.pdf