In all of Europe, Switzerland was the first to recycle plastic products. Since plastic products have generally entered Swiss households, recycling this renewable resource has become a concern of the entire Swiss society. To this end, the federal government has also adopted a series of supporting measures.
Take the recycling of waste plastic bottles as an example. At present, Switzerland has more than 15,000 recycling centers for waste plastic bottles. The average citizen sends more than 100 plastic bottles to recycling centers every year; the national recycling rate of waste plastic bottles has exceeded 80%. , And the recovery rate of other countries in Europe is still only hovering between 20%-40%. The reporter learned in an interview with the Swiss Federal Government’s Energy Agency that the main reason why Switzerland can achieve such a high recycling rate is that the government clearly stipulates that relevant companies across the country can only achieve a recycling rate of more than 75% for their own plastic bottles. Eligible to continue to produce or use plastic bottles as packaging. There are currently 5 large-scale plastic recycling, sorting and processing centers in Switzerland. The newly-built processing center in Vaud can handle 150,000 plastic bottles per hour, and sorts and processes plastics of various colors into new plastic materials. 

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