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The highest recycling rates in Austria and Germany, but in the UK and the fastest growing Ireland.
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Press release Published March 8, 2013 Last Updated June 3, 2016, 24:00 05.
Austria, Germany and Belgium recycled the largest proportion of municipal waste in Europe in 2010 Although some countries have rapidly increased recycling rates, Europe still wasting a lot of precious resources sending them to landfill, and many countries may not legally binding recycling targets.
In a relatively short time, some countries have managed to encourage a culture of recycling, with infrastructure, incentives and public awareness campaigns but others are still lagging behind, losing huge amounts of resources.
Overall 35 of household waste was recycled in Europe in 2010, a significant improvement over 23 in 2001, but many countries will be extremely difficult to achieve the goals mandated by the EU to recycle 50 household and similar waste of 2020 the information comes from a new report from the European environment Agency EEA which looks at the management of municipal solid waste consisting mainly of household waste in 27 EU Member States, Croatia , Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey.
While five countries have already achieved the goal, most others will make extraordinary efforts to do so before the deadline, for example; At present, Bulgaria and Romania seem to recycle small amounts of municipal waste and to achieve the goal by 2020 they should increase the recycling of more than 4 percentage points per year over that thing decade no country has managed to make between 2001 and 2010.
The United Kingdom has increased the share of municipal waste recycling 12-39 between 2001 and 2010, while Ireland has increased recycling rates 11-36 over the same period Slovenia, Poland and Hungary have also improved considerably recycling rates since joining the EU.
Recycling rates are highest in Austria, with 63, followed by Germany 62, Belgium 58, the Netherlands 51 and Switzerland 51 Alongside the main report, the EEA has published country reports .
Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA, said in a relatively short time, some countries have managed to encourage a culture of recycling, infrastructure, incentives and public awareness campaigns but others are still behind, losing huge amounts of resources the strong current demand for certain materials should alert countries to the clear economic opportunities in recycling.
The EEA report is particularly relevant, given that municipal waste is mainly a public sector responsibility and the current economic situation in many EU Member States requires extra attention on how to achieve the objectives of the most cost effective policy.
The report supports the efforts of the European Commission to assist Member States to improve their waste management performance The document will be launched today at a seminar in Brussels on policy instruments and infrastructure to improve municipal waste management.
Europe successfully moving in the waste management hierarchy, although more slowly than the law requires, the report indicates that the amount of waste sent to landfill has decreased since 2001, while Europe increased the amount of waste incinerated, composted and recycled.
Recycling can reduce greenhouse gases and save valuable resources because recycled materials replace virgin materials From the perspective of the life cycle, changing the treatment of municipal waste between 2001 and 2010 managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from municipal waste 56 or 38 million tonnes CO 2 -equivalent in the EU, Norway and Switzerland, according to the report.
Waste prevention in the first place is the first priority of EU waste legislation Municipal waste generated by each EU citizen decreased 3 6 comes 2001 and 2010, however, this may be due to the production of waste per capita economic downturn was relatively stable between 2001 and 2007.
municipal waste produced by the Slovak average increased by 39 between 2001 and 2010, while the Norwegians and Croats have increased the annual municipal waste respectively 30 and 25 at the other end of the scale, several countries have reduced the amount of waste they generated, including Bulgaria reduction 18, Estonia 17, Slovenia 12 and 12 in the UK.
Norway, Ireland and Poland have reduced the proportion of municipal waste landfilled more between 2001 and 2010.
improved recycling rates are mainly due to trends in the recycling of materials, with less progress in recycling of biowaste.
Countries that reduce waste successfully sent to landfill and increased recycling usually used a range of national and regional instruments The landfill bans included on biodegradable waste or municipal waste that has not pretreated, compulsory collection of fractions of municipal waste, economic instruments such as landfill and incineration taxes and fees collection recycling waste. financial incentives to
Recycling includes recycling of materials such as glass, paper, metals and plastics and composting 50 Recycling The goal applies to Member States, Norway and Iceland Countries can choose from four methods of calculation different to indicate compliance with this objective EEA has chosen a method for its analysis, it should be noted that other methods could cause different results.
In addition, it should be noted that the actual recycling rates in some countries may be higher than reported data indicate because their current excludes packaging waste recycled reports from households Moreover, countries with very low levels recycling may request a derogation period for the target.
On 4 March 2013 Eurostat published the 2011 municipal waste data provide new options for the Eurostat analysis uses slightly different categories of EEE and data are therefore not directly comparable to the analysis of the EEA.
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