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EEA (European Environment Agency) published the Waste Recycling Report in Europe in 2019
09 Sep 2021The proportions of waste recycled are increasing in the EU-27... This reflects more waste being used as a resource and progress towards achieving a circular economy, but the pace of progress is slowing and there has been little improvement in the last five years. Much faster progress is needed to achieve a circular economy, as the amount of waste recycled is still less than half of the total waste produced. Recycling rates vary, with the lowest being 39% for electrical and electronic waste and the highest being 66% for packaging waste.
The fundamental principle of EU waste policy is to follow the principles of the circular economy by moving waste management up the waste hierarchy, that is, to preserve the value of the resource in the economic cycle, to prevent and reduce the negative effects of using primary resources on the environment and society. Recycling stands out as one of the main ways to reduce the consumption of resources by ensuring the use of secondary materials produced from recycled waste instead of primary resources. This is the desired method to achieve sustainability, self-sufficiency in raw materials and other benefits of the circular economy.
Improving recycling rates by increasing the amount of waste recycled relative to waste produced is a key element of the EU's waste management targets. For example, the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive (EU, 2012) sets targets for the separate collection and recycling of electrical and electronic waste; The Waste Framework Directive (EU, 2008, 2018a) includes objectives to prepare for the recycling and reuse of municipal waste; The Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (EU, 1994, 2018b) defines the targets for the recycling of packaging waste. In total, EU Waste Legislation contains more than 30 binding targets for the period 2015-2030.
Recycling rates of municipal waste, packaging waste and electrical/electronic waste, which are important and critical sources of secondary raw materials, are slowly increasing in Europe, indicating some progress towards using more waste as resources and achieving a circular economy. Despite this, the total recycling rate, excluding minerals and the amounts obtained during the recycling stages, remained below half of the total waste production for the period data, and a recycling rate of 48% was achieved in 2016. More up-to-date data is expected to be available only in 2021.
In recent years, progress for three important types of waste: packaging waste, municipal waste and electrical and electronic waste has been higher than the world average. However, with the exception of packaging waste, which reached 66% in 2018, other recycling rates are still below half of the amount of waste produced.
Most of the countries mentioned have significantly increased their municipal waste recycling rates since 2004, clearly demonstrating improvements in waste management. However, the difference in municipal waste recycling performance between the countries with the highest and lowest recycling rates appears to be high. In 2019, the rates were 67% in Germany and 5% in Montenegro. Eight countries - Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy - achieved recycling rates of 50% or more, while another group of six countries recycled less than 20% of their municipal waste. Moreover, some of the countries with relatively low recycling rates made little progress between 2004 and 2019, and in 2018, 14 EU member states were identified as being at risk of failing to meet the 2020 recycling target set in the Waste Framework Directive (aim to recycle 50% of certain materials in household and similar waste by 2020) (EU, 2018a).
Source:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/waste-recycling-2/assessment
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