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Waste•smART – creative competition: Imagine all the resources, energy and labour that are used to produce food, cars, clothes, mobile phones and everything we consume. If we do not re-use and recycle them, they could be ending up in landfills or incineration plants. Each year, EU citizens generate an average of six tonnes of solid waste per person. Waste can not only be an economic loss but also negatively impact the environment as well as human health.
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Highest recycling rates in Austria and Germany – but UK and Ireland show fastest increase: Austria, Germany and Belgium recycled the largest proportion of municipal waste in Europe in 2010. Although some countries have rapidly increased recycling rates, Europe is still wasting vast quantities of valuable resources by sending them to landfill, and many countries risk falling short of legally binding recycling targets.
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Development of municipal waste management in 32 European countries, 2001–2010: The amount of municipal waste related to treatment in million tonnes
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Municipal waste generated per capita in 2001 and 2010: The amount of municipal solid waste generated per capita in kilogramme
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Recycling rates for packaging waste fractions and municipal waste (SCP 016) - Assessment DRAFT created Jan 2013: Recycling rates have generally increased steadily in Europe for most packaging waste fractions and total municipal waste since the mid-1990s. Total packaging waste recycling rates increased in the EU-15 from 47% to 65% between 1998 and 2010. Recycling rates for total packaging waste for the EU-27 as a whole had reached similar levels (63%) by 2010. Recycling rates of municipal waste in the EU-27 more than doubled between 1995 and 2007, but have stagnated since then. Increasing recycling rates are a sign that Europe is making progress towards a recycling society, but for a number of packaging waste fractions as well as for municipal waste, there is still room for improvement.
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Total recycled quantities for six key material types in the EU27 including exports for recycling (11.1) (SCP 015) - Assessment DRAFT created Jan 2013: Europe appears not to be moving closer to a closed loop society within its internal market. While, yearly recycled quantities of plastic, paper, glass, metals, textiles and wood waste generated in the EU increased by 11.1 million tonnes (7%) between 2004 and 2008, almost all of the increase resulted from a sharp rise in net exports of waste for recycling overseas. Yearly exports of waste for recycling had increased by a further 8 million tonnes by 2010. This may suggest some movement towards a closed loop society when treatment of European waste is viewed from a more global perspective.
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Municipal waste generation (CSI 016/waste 001) - Assessment DRAFT created Jan 2013: One of the most important objectives of the EU policy is to decouple waste generation from economic growth. Data shows that Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation in the EU-27 has been stabilising since 2000 albeit at a high level of around 520 kg/capita. However, MSW generation went down to 513 kg/capita in 2010, probably an effect of the economic downturn starting in 2008.
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Trend in the amount of WEEE collected from households in 28 European countries (kg/capita/year), 2006-2008-2010: The figures show the amount of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) that has been collected from private households in European countries, stated in kg/capita. The figures are related to the EU collection target of 4 kg/capita/year. Values are related to 2006, 2008 and 2010.
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Waste electrical and electronic equipment (waste 003) - Assessment DRAFT created Dec 2012: Data indicates that while reuse and recycling of the collected waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) seems to be on track in the majority of the EU and EFTA member countries, the collection of the WEEE has shown varying but generally improving results. It appears that the amounts of WEEE that are collected, are largely reused or recycled although there is still room for improvement in some countries. However, more attention should be given to the improvement of collection systems. The level of collection is still very low in many countries, especially when compared to the amount put on the market (Figure 1).
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Treatment of packaging waste in the EU-15: The figure shows the treatment of packaging waste 1997-2010
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