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Those are not at all better. They're mixed materials. Much harder to "recycle," in practice even if collected, usually just burned.



Not-recycled paper is an improvement over not-recycled plastic. The coating I don't know.


Problem is, it's not paper.

It's called [Tetra pack][1], and contains both paper, plastic and metal. Physical separation is virtually impossible (at scale), chemical separation is very environment-unfriendly.

Unfortunately in Switzerland it is dumped to trash; in Easter-Europe it is collected for separation though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Pak




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