Indicator Fact Sheet

Expenditures on clean-up of contaminated sites

Indicator Fact Sheet

Prod-ID: IND-10-en

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Topics: Soil Industry Environment and health

This page was archived on 26 Aug 2017 with reason: A new version has been published

Assessment made on 01 Jan 2001

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Topics:

Soil , Industry , Environment and health

DPSIR: Response

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Policy issue: How much is being spent on cleaning up soil contamination?

Key assessment

Annual expenditure (public and private) on contaminated site remediation in selected countries (German figures are projections from data from some Lä®¤er; Belgian data refers only to Flanders).

The difference across Europe in the funds spent every year on cleaning up contaminated sites per head of population is huge ? almost 100 times. This is partly because data on private expenditure is scarce, but mainly because the problem and the standards being applied vary so significantly from one country to another.