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Material resources and waste — key message 5: The environmental pressures of Europe's consumption and production patterns, potentially resulting in damage to ecosystems and human health impacts, spread far beyond its borders. Most outlooks predict continued growth in the use of material resources both in the EU and globally, with key waste streams increasing as well.
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Material resources and waste — key message 6: Policy has only recently begun to address the challenges of the growing use of resources. Most actions taken to date do not comprehensively address the upstream causes of growth, focusing instead on the downstream consequences. As yet, there are no broadly accepted and robust methods for measuring the impacts of resource use, and few concrete targets or indicators exist. Policies aimed at the prevention of waste remain weak.
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EU-27 physical trade balance with the rest of the world, 2008: This figure shows 2008 total imports and exports of the EU27 with the rest of the world in physical terms. There is a massive asymmetry in trade between EU-27 and the rest of the world in the category of ‘Fuels and mining products’. EU imported in 2008 over six times more resources than it exported.
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Recycling rates for packaging waste in 2009 by country: Generation and recycling of packaging waste in the member countries of the European Environment Agency. The data show that 17 countries in 2009 met the 2009 target of the Packaging Waste Directive (2004/12/EC) to recycle at least 55% of packaging waste generated, and two countries missed the 2001 target to recycle at least 25%.
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Growth in the Productivity of Labour, Energy and materials for selected European countries: This figure shows the development of labour productivity, energy productivity and material productivity in selected European countries.
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Material productivity by country, 2000 vs 2008/2009: This figure shows the material productivity (GDP in millions of 2011 US$ (converted to 2011 price level with updated 2005 EKS PPPs) per tonnes DMC) for the EU27 member states and selected other countries in 2000 and 2009 respectively 2008.
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Shipments of notified waste from EU Member States to other EU and non‐EU countries, 1997-2009: The figure illustrates the amount of transboundary shipped notified waste, in Million tonnes, traded from EU-member states to different countries. These cover countries within EU-15, EFTA, Non-OECD (inkl. BG and RO), EU-12 excl. BG + RO and OECD (non-EFTA).
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Total waste generation in the EU, EFTA, Turkey and Croatia in 2008 by source: This figure shows the total waste generation distribution in percentages between different sources in the EU, EFTA, Croatia and Turkey in 2008
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Growth in the Productivity of Labour, Energy and Materials in the EU: This figure shows the development of labour productivity, energy productivity and materials productivity in the EU
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Material resources and waste — 2012 update: Update to the European Environment State and Outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) thematic assessment
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