In 2023, the number of recycling business entities in Japan amounted to around thousand. Figures peaked at close to *** thousand in 2020. Even though plastics, PET bottles, glass, and paper are collected separately 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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