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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10798

5 March 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Waste recycling increases, but still too much incineration

Brussels, 04/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Processing municipal waste is a good thing. Not incinerating it is even better. However, despite the fact that across the EU, almost all (96.62%) of municipal waste in 2011 was processed, with a notable increase in recycling over 10 years, incineration - the last resort in the hierarchy of waste treatment laid down by EU legislation - is still frequently practised in a number of countries, according to the statistics published on Monday 4 March by...

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