Number of glass bottles recycling business entities Japan FY 2013-2022
In fiscal year 2022, the number of business entities that recycled glass bottles in Japan amounted to close to three thousand. Even though plastics, PET bottles, glass, and paper are collected separately and recycled, the overall recycling rate in Japan has stayed at close to 20 percent over the past decade, constituting one of the lowest recycling rates among OECD countries.