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In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the first EU monitoring framework for the circular economy, aimed at tracking the progress of the EU and the Member States. Following the launch of the new...

Packaging and small plastic items make up nearly 80% of this plastic waste. This new European Environment Agency report is the first Europe-wide study of its kind taking...

In this contribution, we propose a quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater collection, treatment and discharge in Europe, taking into account the use of electricity and reagents, construction of the infrastructure...

Data on waste generation and treatment by country, waste category, hazardousness and waste operations (generation/treatment/deposit) expressed in tonnes and percentage. Categories of biological wastes included in the dataset would...

Data on waste flow (imports/exports/trade balance) by country and waste operation (six treatment types -recovery, incineration with energy recovery, other incineration, disposal on land and land...

Data on waste generation in tonnes and kilograms per capita, broken down by economic activity (NACE R2), member state and type and hazardousness of waste. All values are...

Data on waste operations (six treatment types -recovery, incineration with energy recovery, other incineration, disposal on land and land treatment and other disposal) and waste flow...

Data on treatment broken down by type of waste and treatment operation, defined in the Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC. Distinction is made in five treatment types: Recovery (excluding...

Bio-waste – mainly food and garden waste – is a key waste stream with a high potential for contributing to a more circular economy. This report provides an overview of bio-waste...

This paper provides an overview of waste generation and treatment operations in the European Union (EU) and other European countries and an analysis of the possibilities for the use of municipal solid waste (MSW)...