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U.S. collection of plastic bottles for recycling 2000-2016

Weight of bottles collected for recycling in the U.S. from 2000 to 2016 (in million pounds)
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The data describes the total amount of PET post consumer bottles collected in the U.S. between 2000 and 2016. In 2016, 1.76 billion pounds of PET containers were collected for recycling.

1999 771
2000 769
2001 834
2002 797
2003 841
2004 1003
2005 1170
2006 1272
2007 1396
2008 1451
2009 1444
2010 1557
2011 1604
2012 1718
2013 1798
2014 1812
2015 1797
2016 1753

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