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r/recycling

44.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3K upvotes, which works out to 67 per 1,000 members.

67peak upvotes per 1,000 members
44.5Kmembers
3Kbest post
780most comments
199posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Dismantling a car at the junkyard.

↑ 3K 💬 73 video 2025

Cups tossed in recycling bins at Massachusetts Starbucks tracked to incinerators, Alabama landfill

↑ 2.7K 💬 59 link 2024

Massive geopolitical shift. NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a …

↑ 2K 💬 35 video 2026

How a Hydraulic Metal Baler Transforms Aluminum Cans into Compact Blocks?

↑ 1.7K 💬 56 video 2024

Shame on Costco

↑ 1.5K 💬 188 gallery 2026

This is what really plastic recycling ♻️ looks like NOT very eco-friendly 😒

↑ 1.2K 💬 377 video 2025

Why is this glass jar non recyclable

↑ 853 💬 152 image 2025

Malaysia will stop accepting U.S. plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California

↑ 820 💬 40 link 2025

Apparently plates don’t decompose in California

↑ 793 💬 89 gallery 2025

I tested how curbside recycling actually works in my Virginia county.

↑ 760 💬 78 text 2026

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/recycling, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.