The accounts don't balance. The quantity of newspapers and corrugated fiberboard recycled is  80% and 70% respectively. How much post-consumer plastic is recycled? Wikipedia states that according to the EPA, the recycling rate for plastics overall was 9.1% in 2015.

"Certain products have higher rates, such as PET bottles and jars at 29.9%, and HDPE natural bottles at 30.3%. These rates are lower than certain other materials, like steel cans, that had an estimated recycling rate of 71.3% in 2015," says the digital encyclopedia.

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