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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11518

24 March 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Municipal waste, progress in recycling, but still too much waste going to landfill in EU

Brussels, 23/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - In 2014, the production of municipal waste fell in the EU and the recycling rate rose, but large variations in member states' performance and waste treatment methods paint a more gloomy picture, according to figures released by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, on Wednesday 23 March.

Virtually all of this waste has been processed, but incineration and landfill are still very widely practised in some countries, despite these treatment methods being...

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