EU, packaging for 83.4 tonnes. Plastic is rising | EUROtoday

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In ten years in Europe, the amount of packaging waste has elevated and, albeit at decrease percentages, the quantity of recycled supplies. The most virtuous nations are Slovakia with 60%, Belgium with 54%. And then Germany and Slovenia each at 51%. Italy, which recycled 46% of plastic waste, has the next place than the European common which additionally sees very low percentages (equivalent to these of France and Austria at 25%, Denmark at 23% and Malta at 16%).

Packaging for 83.4 million tonnes within the EU

The knowledge comes from the most recent Eurostat report, referring to 2022. Two years in the past, a complete of 83.4 million tonnes of packaging waste have been produced within the European Union, equal to 186.5 kilos per inhabitant. A worth that data a lower of three.6 kilos in comparison with 2021, however a development of 31.7 kilos in comparison with ten years earlier.

As for the composition of the waste, 41% was made up of paper and cardboard, 19% of plastic, 19% of glass, 16% of wooden and 5% of steel.

In 2022, a median of 36.1 kilos of plastic packaging waste was generated per EU inhabitant and of this 14.7 kilos was recycled. In ten years (from 2012 to 2022) the quantity of plastic packaging waste has grown by 7.6 kilos per individual whereas the quantity recycled has elevated by 4 kilos.

Virtuous Italy

In Italy in 2023, as said within the common report of Conai (the nationwide packaging consortium), 75.3% of packaging waste was recycled. It is due to this fact 10 million 470 thousand tonnes out of a complete of virtually 14 million tonnes launched for consumption. A recycling proportion rising strongly in comparison with roughly 71% in 2022, additionally as a consequence of a discount in packs launched for consumption in Italy.