In 2023, the number of recycling businesses that recycled plastics in Japan amounted to around thousand, making up the largest number of recycling businesses. Even though plastics, PET bottles, glass, and paper are collected and recycled, the overall recycling rate in Japan has stayed at around ** percent over the past decade, constituting one of the lowest recycling rates among OECD countries.
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