EU aims to increase recycling
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
18.04.2018 11:05
Forty-four percent of municipal waste in Poland is recycled, while 37% ends up in landfills, the IAR news agency reported as MEPs were on Wednesday to vote on plans aiming to make the EU a greener “circular economy.”
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In the 28-nation European Union as a whole, 47% of waste is recycled on average, according to IAR.
Members of the European Parliament were on Wednesday to vote on plans to set a municipal waste recycling target of 55% by 2025.
Germany leads the way in the EU: there, 66% of waste is recycled, IAR said.
In 2014, European Union countries produced 2.5 billion tonnes of waste.
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Source: IAR