Environmental Engineering Reference
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Table 1. Treatment methods for municipal waste in European countries
2002 in 000s of tons (Eurostat, 2005)
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Energy
recovery
Incineration,
destruction
Recycling
Composting
Landfill
Total
Belgium
1442
1088
1493
134
594
4761
Czech
Republic
175
122
398
3
2097
2845
Denmark
796
555
2008
:
215
3587
Germany
17250
7844
153
11673
11266
52532
Estonia
13
2
0
0
419
553
Greece
375
32
:
:
4233
4640
Spain
3811
3914
1567
:
14723
:
France
4715
4208
10235
875
12991
33024
Ireland
463
34
:
:
1967
2724
Italy
3897
7335
2587
111
18500
29929
Cyprus
:
:
:
:
450
500
Latvia
35
24
55
0
657
866
Lithuania
:
:
:
:
1000
1000
Luxembourg
:
:
:
:
:
:
Hungary
67
47
288
:
3907
4646
Malta
:
:
:
:
188
187
Netherlands
2133
2365
3125
:
810
9900
Austria
:
:
490
:
1500
4634
Poland
116
215
:
36
10142
10509
Portugal
252
135
944
:
3388
4618
Slovenia
87
11
5
0
699
956
Slovakia
37
39
91
65
1192
1524
Finland
659
:
201
0
1512
2372
Sweden
1295
354
1675
:
825
4172
UK
3733
1423
2674
7
27545
33535
Bulgaria
:
:
:
:
3188
3945
Romania
170
:
:
:
6695
8365
Turkey
:
383
9
0
24573
33324
Iceland
19
3
7
3
245
293
Norway
507
225
492
482
3061
Switzerland
:
:
:
:
80
4900
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The data in the Recycling, Composting, Energy recovery, Incineration destruction, and Landfill columns are
taken from “Treatment of municipal waste”. The data in the Total column is taken from “Generation of
municipal waste”. These were obtained from the Eurostat website. The data differs somewhat in some cases.
This is done in order to compare data, to see whether anything has been omitted.
