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The U.S. discards more than 30 million tons of plastic each year, but only eight percent of this waste gets recycled. The rest, nearly 27,600,000 tons, ends up in landfills, is burned, or litters the environment. The Nevada Recycles program is striving to achieve a 25 percent recycling rate statewide.

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