Municipal waste landfilling rates in 32 European countries, 2001 and 2010

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Percentage of municipal waste landfilled in each European country, 2001 and 2010

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Last upload:: 19 Feb 2013
Temporal coverage:: 2001-2010
Tags:: municipal waste , municipal solid waste , landfill
Geographic coverage:: Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Europe , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United Kingdom
Methodology:: The amounts of municipal waste reported as landfilled ('deposited onto or into land') have been divided by the amounts of municipal waste generated by country, and converted into percentages. Data for Austria has been corrected according to information received from the Austrian Umweltbundesamt.
Units:: Percentage
Rights:: 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).
Owners:: Copenhagen Resource Institute (CRI)
Figure type:: Graph

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Notes: The further from the centre in the radar chart, the worse the waste management. Countries are ranked from the highest landfilling rate in 2010 to the lowest. The landfilling rate is calculated as a % of MSW landfilled per MSW generated. According to Eurostat the comparability of the data over time is high. However, some breaks in the time series are documented, which can influence the comparability between countries and within a country. Generally, the quality of the data seems to better in the end of the period between 2001 and 2010 than in the beginning.