In 2022, some 1,992 million tonnes of waste have been handled within the EU, with 61.4% recovered and 38.6% disposed of.
Whereas the entire quantity of handled waste elevated solely barely since 2004 (+5%), the amount of waste recovered elevated by 40.6% (from 870 million tonnes to 1 223 million tonnes). Restoration contains recycling, backfilling and incineration with vitality restoration. The amount of waste topic to disposal decreased from 1,027 million tonnes in 2004 to 769 million tonnes in 2022, down by 25.1%.
The article presents a handful of findings from the extra detailed Statistics Defined article on waste statistics.
Supply dataset: env_wastrt
General, 61.4% of EU waste was handled within the restoration operation: recycling (40.8% of the entire handled waste), backfilling (14.2%) or vitality restoration (6.4%). The remaining 38.6% was both landfilled (30.2%), incinerated with out vitality restoration (0.4%) or disposed of in any other case (8.0%).
Supply dataset: env_wastrt
Appreciable variations have been noticed amongst EU international locations of their use of waste remedy strategies. Italy recorded the best share of recycling at 85.6%, adopted by Belgium and Slovakia, each at 68.3%. In distinction, landfill and different disposal strategies dominated in Romania (93.8%), Bulgaria (93.0%), and Finland (81.0%).
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Methodological notes
- ‘Waste’ is outlined in Directive 2008/98/EC Article 3(1) as “any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard”.
- Waste remedy doesn’t embody exported waste from EU international locations to different EU international locations or exterior the EU; nevertheless, it contains the remedy of waste imported into the EU international locations. Subsequently, the reported quantities usually are not immediately comparable with these on waste technology.