Plastic packaging waste generation in the EU-27 2005-2022
The generation of plastic packaging waste in the European Union (EU-27) has been on a mostly continual annual growth since the turn of the decade. Nevertheless, in 2022, plastic packaging waste produced in the EU was estimated at 16.15 million metric tons, a slight decrease from last year. This figure represented an increase of roughly 31 percent in comparison to 2005.