Plastics waste sources for recycling companies in the EU 2020

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 25, 2023
Of the 57 European recycling companies surveyed in 2020, 60 percent collected plastic waste exclusively from industrial waste, with just 16 percent of recyclers sourcing from municipal solid waste. The generation of plastic packaging waste per capita in the EU averaged 33.45 kilograms in 2018.

Sources of plastic waste collected by recycling companies* in the European Union in 2020

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Release date

August 2020

Region

EU

Survey time period

2020

Number of respondents

57 recycling companies

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Supplementary notes

*Large players - capacity of more than 50 thousand tons per year; Medium players - capacity of 10 to 50 thousand tons per year; Small players - capacity up to 10 thousand tons per year.

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