The Commission launched a public consultation on the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, including setting of EU food waste reduction targets.

Around 88 million tonnes of food waste is generated in the EU each year. How can we prevent such a waste of resources, and ensure food security...

The New Circular Economy Action Plan (Commission, 2020) mandates increasing recycling rates for several waste streams, e.g., plastic waste or municipal biowaste. There...

Data on consumption, production, transformation and supply of energy from municipal waste. Data expressed in terajoules (TJ). Consumption data are broken down by sector (e.g. agriculture...

Data on consumption, production, transformation and supply of animal waste for energy purposes. Data expressed in Terajoules (TJ). Consumption data are broken down by sector (e.g...

Data on collected municipal waste by country expressed in thousand of tons. Municipal waste, collected by or on behalf of municipalities, by public or private enterprises, includes waste originating from...

Data on treatment (landfilled, incinerated, recycled or composted) of the collected municipal waste by city on the last year available. Data on collected waste expressed in thousand tons, whereas...

Data on treatment (landfilled, incinerated, recycled or composted) of the collected municipal waste by country on the last year available. Data on collected waste expressed in thousand tons, whereas...

There is significant potential to increase recycling across Europe for municipal, construction and electronic waste according to a European Environment Agency briefing. Compared to current recycled amounts...