Recycling rate of municipal packaging waste in the EU-27 2019, by material
Paper and pulp packaging had the highest recycling rate for packaging in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019, at 82 percent. This was closely followed by metallic packaging, which had a recycling rate of 77.4 percent. The
recycling rate of plastic packaging in EU averaged just 40.6 percent in 2019, but rates vary widely by country.
