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Recycling provides core resources: Recycling can meet a large proportion of the economy’s resources demand, alleviating pressure on ecosystems to provide resources and assimilate waste. Recycling already meets substantial proportions of demand for some resource groups, notably paper and cardboard, and iron and steel.
Located in News › Recycling industry can boost the European economy › key facts
New film on waste management in Greenland: Dealing with large quantities of unwanted (and sometimes toxic) waste is often difficult – but it becomes even more complicated when people live in isolated communities, in extreme environments hundreds of kilometres from the nearest treatment plant. This is the subject of a new film considering waste management in Greenland, entitled ‘Mission Greenland – for a cleaner future’.
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Waste - State and impacts (Sweden): State and impact of waste on the natural environment and on human health. Links to further national information on waste.
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Country assessments › Sweden
National and regional story (Luxembourg) - 2 - The ‘SuperDrecksKëscht’ Action: SOER National and regional story from Luxembourg - 2 - The ‘SuperDrecksKëscht’ Action: a success story in managing hazardous waste
Located in The European environment – state and outlook 2010 › Country assessments › Luxembourg
Recycling of packaging waste by country, 2008: The figure shows the recycle of packaging waste by country in 2008
Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Total recycled quantities for six key material types in the EU27 including exports for recycling: Time series of total recycling amounts for six different material types, as reported by the EU27, plus the net exports of wastes of those 6 materials for the purpose of recycling in the rest of the world
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Average annual percentage point increase needed in 32 European countries to reach 50 % recycling by 2020 and past rates achieved: The yearly average percentage point increase required by each country between 2010 and 2020 to reach the 50 % target and compared with the rates achieved in 2001–2006 and 2001–2010.
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Progress of European countries up the municipal bio-waste recycling hierarchy, 2001–2010: Number of countries per defined intervals of bio-waste recycling of MSW management in 2001 and 2010.
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The rate of recycling versus incineration with energy recovery of municipal waste, 2005: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Progress of European countries up the material recycling hierarchy, 2001–2010: Number of countries per defined intervals of material recycling of MSW management in 2001 and 2010.
Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs