It's worse than that... Even for ideal, highly recyclable materials like aluminium and glass, the majority is thrown away globally.

Aluminium and glass are more economical to recycle than sourcing virgin materials! comparably simple and infinitely recyclable - and yet we still can't get that right - Plastic is expensive and complex to recycle, the idea that recycling it was ever a solution to plastic pollution is complete BS, there will always be a significant quantity that ends up in the ground and in the sea.