of Canada’s discarded plastic became recycled plastic in 2022
About 333,000 tonnes of recycled pellets, flakes and fibres came out of 5.2 million tonnes of plastic thrown away, and recycled output fell 10.4% on 2021.
- Value
- 6.5%
- Unit
- %
- Data year
- 2022
- Trend
- Falling
- Source name
- Statistics Canada, Physical flow account for plastic material, 2022 (released 26 March 2026)
- Confidence
- Evidence: Medium
- Caveat / scope
- Calculated by No Plastic Today: recycled output (333,377 tonnes) divided by plastic discarded (5,152,444 tonnes). Statistics Canada does not publish a single recycling rate. The often-quoted 9% is 2016 data from a study by Deloitte and Cheminfo Services, commissioned and paid for by Environment and Climate Change Canada, and it included chemical recycling.
- Verified on
- 26 September 2026
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