Yearly average percentage point increase in total recycling of municipal waste, 2001–2005 and 2006–2010

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Last upload:: 19 Feb 2013
Temporal coverage:: 2001-2010
Tags:: recycling , municipal waste , municipal solid waste
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 data are collected by ETC/SCP for the EEA. The amounts have been converted into percentage
Units:: Percentage point increase per year
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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Copenhagen Resource Institute (CRI).
Owners:: Copenhagen Resource Institute (CRI)
Processors:: EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION (ETC/SCP)
Figure type:: Graph

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Notes: The larger the bar, the greater the improvement in recycling rate. For example, Poland improved its recycling rate from 7 % of MSW generated in 2006 to 21 % in 2010, equivalent to a 14 percentage point improvement or almost 3 percentage points per year on average. 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. The trends for 2001-2005 are therefore less reliable than the 2006-2010 trends, and in some cases, trends might rather reflect changes in data collection than change in waste management. For Iceland is used 2008 data for 2010. For Slovenia 2002 data are used for 2001 and 2009 data are used for 2010. Croatia is only included with data for the period from 2007 to 2010