Malta one of the worst countries in Europe for waste generation and recycling
- Malta produced 600 to 700kg of waste per person in 2008
- Nearly 30% use internet banking and 60% of households have internet access
- EU statistics for International Women’s Day
- One person in two in the EU27 uses the internet daily
- Malta most expensive country in EU for consumer electronics
- GDP per inhabitant varied from 40% to 253% across the EU27
- Malta has one of lowest childcare rates in the EU
- R&D expenditure in the EU27 stable at 1.85% of GDP in 2007
- Malta has most asylum seekers per inhabitant in EU
- EU GDP per inhabitant varies from 38% to 276%
- 64% of enterprises in the EU27 had a website and increased broadband access in 2008
- EU27 spent 26.9% of GDP on social protection
- 32% of people in the EU27 shop on the internet
- Employment rate in the EU27 rose to 65.4% in 2007 Rate for women rose to 58.3%
- 17% of EU27 population at risk of poverty
Almost 40% of this waste was recycled or composted
In the EU27, 522 kg of municipal waste was generated per person in 2007. Municipal waste can be treated in several ways: landfilling, incineration, recycling or composting. In the EU27 in 2007, 42% of treated municipal waste was landfilled, 20% incinerated, 22% recycled and 17% composted.
Municipal waste generated per person varied from 294 kg in the Czech Republic to 801 kg in Denmark
The amount of municipal waste generated varies significantly across Member States. More than 750 kg per person was generated in 2007 in Denmark, Ireland and Cyprus. Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands had values between 600 and 750 kg per person and Austria, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Estonia, Sweden and Finland between 500 and 600 kg. The next group of Member States included Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Slovenia and Lithuania with values between 400 and 500 kg of municipal waste per person. The lowest values of below 400 kg per person were found in Romania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Highest share of municipal waste recycled in Germany, Belgium and Sweden
The treatment methods differ substantially between Member States. In 2007, the Member States with the highest share of municipal waste landfilled were Bulgaria (100% of waste treated), Romania (99%), Lithuania (96%), Malta (93%) and Poland (90%).
The highest shares of incinerated municipal waste were observed in Denmark (53%), Luxembourg and Sweden (both 47%), the Netherlands (38%), France (36%), Germany (35%) and Belgium (34%). Eleven Member States, including Malta, had no incineration at all.
The Member States with the highest recycling rates for municipal waste were Germany (46%), Belgium (39%), Sweden (37%), Estonia and Ireland (both 34%), Malta stood at 2%.
Composting of municipal waste was most common in Austria (38%), Italy (33%), Luxembourg and the Netherlands (both 28%), and not done at all in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, Malta stood at 5%.
Composting and recycling accounted for over 50% of municipal waste treated in Germany (64%), Belgium (62%), the Netherlands (60%) and Austria (59%), Malta stood at 7%.
This information is published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
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Look out into the Gozo country side, good percentage of it is dumped there. Why is it that nobody adds this to the percentages. It is waste disposal.
Well said Jonas