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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)

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

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

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