GHG emissions from municipal waste management in the EU, Switzerland and Norway

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Created : Feb 20, 2013 Published : Mar 05, 2013 Last modified : Mar 19, 2013 08:58 AM

Topics: Waste and material resources ,

This figure shows the GHG emissions associated with municipal waste management for the EU-27 (without Cyprus) plus Norway and Switzerland, differentiated according to the contribution of specific waste treatment paths. The GHG emissions are calculated using a life-cycle approach. In order to see the overall effect of waste management, the avoided emissions (counted as negative values) are plotted with the direct emissions, giving the net greenhouse gas emissions from MSW management in European countries (the black line).

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Last upload:

20 Feb 2013

Dynamic

Temporal coverage:

1990-2010

Tags:

recycling | landfilling | municipal waste | municipal solid waste

Geographical coverage:

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Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Europe Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

Methodology:

The waste generation and distribution between treatment options for 1990-1994 has been backcasted by ETC/SCP’s best estimate. The data for 1995-2010 are based on reported data. Note: The composition of the MSW disposed in landfills, incinerated or recycled respectively are based on (ETC/SCP, 2011), updated with additional data received from Eionet countries during an Eionet consultation process, initiated by the EEA in 2012. Based on this consultation the calculations were updated for many countries and the results included in the GHG emissions calculations accordingly.

Units:

Million tonnes CO2-equivalents

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EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Copenhagen Resource Institute (CRI).

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