Her details came to light today, Wednesday (27/10) Eurostat for plastic waste and recycling their.
More specifically, as the data show, in 2019 they were produced on average 34.4 kg plastic packaging waste, per capita in the EU.
Between 2009 and 2019, the volume of plastic packaging waste generated per capita increased by 24% (+6.7 kg). According to the APE-MPE, during the same period, the recycling volume of plastic packaging waste increased sharply by 50%. Despite this improvement, the amount of plastic packaging that was not recycled increased by 2 kg per inhabitant since 2009, due to the largest increase in the absolute price of plastic packaging waste produced.
Plastic waste: The 9 countries that precede recycling and the tails
In 2019, it is estimated that 41% of plastic packaging waste was recycled in the EU. Nine EU Member States recycled more than half of the plastic packaging waste generated:
- Lithuania (70%),
- Czech Republic (61%),
- Bulgaria (59%, data for 2018),
- The Netherlands (57%),
- Sweden and Slovakia (both 53%),
- Spain (52%),
- Cyprus (51%),
- Slovenia (50%).
By contrast, less than a third of plastic packaging waste was recycled in Malta (11%), France (27%), Ireland (28%), Austria (31%), Poland (32%) and Hungary ( 33%).
In Hellas, in 2019, the 38% of plastic packaging waste, according to Eurostat data.
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