Waste recycling in Europe

The waste recycling rate in Europe has increased due to EU binding recycling targets, indicating progress towards using more waste as a resource and achieving a circular economy. However, progress has stagnated recently and in some cases reversed, with total waste recycling rates lower in 2022 than a decade earlier. The majority of waste was still disposed of through incineration or landfilling. Achieving circularity and minimising environmental impacts from natural resource use requires continuous and ambitious waste management policies to incentivise recycling, discourage landfilling and incineration.

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DPSIR Response
Typology Efficiency indicator (Type C - Are we improving?)
UN SDGs SDG15: Life on land
Topics Waste and recycling, Resource use and materials, Plastics
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