Annual plastic waste imports in the EU 2005-2021
plastic waste exports from the European Union amounted to some 1.14 million metric tons in 2021, after seeing a continuous decline.
The European Union (EU-27) imported over 740,000 metric tons of plastic waste from non-EU countries in 2021. Overall, the volume of plastic waste imported by the EU has seen an upward trend for nearly two decades. Meanwhile,