Bulgaria Last in EU Recycling, Composting

Bulgaria is the only EU member state which neither recycles nor composts any of its municipal waste, according to Eurostat data for 2009 published Tuesday.

In 2009, Bulgaria was the only state which landfilled 100% of its municipal waste, followed by Romania (99%), Malta (96%), Lithuania (95%), and Latvia (92%).

On the other hand, recycling and composting of municipal waste together accounted for 50% of waste treated or more in Austria (70%), Germany (66%), the Netherlands (61%), Belgium (60%) and Sweden (50%). In seven Member States less than 10% of waste was recycled or composted.

The highest shares of incinerated municipal waste were observed in Sweden (49% of waste treated in this way), Denmark (48%), the Netherlands (39%), Luxembourg (36%), Belgium (35%), Germany and France (with 34%). In ten Member States incineration was equal to or below 1%.

Recycling was most common in Germany (48% of waste treated), Belgium and Sweden (both 36%), Slovenia and Denmark (both 34%), Ireland and the Netherlands (both 32%). The Member States with the highest composting rates for municipal waste were Austria (40%), Italy (32%), the Netherlands (28%), Spain and Belgium (both 24%) and Luxembourg (20%).

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