Progress of European countries up the recycling hierarchy (material and bio-waste recycling), 2001–2010

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Topics: Resource efficiency and waste ,

The number of countries achieving defined intervals of total recycling in 2001 and 2010.

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Last upload:

19 Feb 2013

Temporal coverage:

2001-2010

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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 recycling rates are calculated as share of municipal waste recycled (material recycling + organic recycling) and the countries are then grouped into categories.

Units:

Number of countries per category

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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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Copenhagen Resource Institute (CRI)

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Additional information

Notes: The greener the bars, the higher the recycling rate. Number of countries within each recycling category indicated in the white boxes. Information is not available for one country in 2001. Total recycling includes material recycling as well as composting and digestion of bio-waste.

For Iceland 2008 data is used for 2010. For Slovenia 2002 data are used for 2001 and 2009 data are used for 2010. Croatia is not included for 2001