Municipal waste, packaging waste, waste excluding major mineral wastes and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are used as examples these waste streams represent significant sources of secondary materials and also, especially in the case of WEEE, sources of critical raw materials.įor municipal and packaging waste, as well as WEEE, legally binding quantitative targets for recycling and preparing for reuse are stipulated in EU legislation. The purpose of this indicator is to show the rate of Europe's progress (the 28 EU Member States (EU-28) and other European countries for which data are available) towards the goal of recycling more waste. This is the desired approach to achieving sustainability, material self-sufficiency and the other benefits of a circular economy. For this reason among others, recycling is one of the main ways to reduce the consumption of primary resources by replacing them with secondary materials made of recycled waste.
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Rising demand for and supply of primary resources weaken the EU's material self-sufficiency and put pressure on the environment. The basic principles of a circular economy are to maintain resource value in the economic cycle for as long as possible and to prevent and reduce the negative effects of obtaining primary resources on the environment and society.
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Recycling rates for both municipal waste and packaging waste have increased substantially: by 16 percentage points between 20 for municipal waste and by 13 percentage points between 20 for packaging waste.Recycling rates of municipal waste, packaging waste and waste electrical and electronic equipment - which represent significant sources of secondary materials and critical raw materials - are increasing in Europe, indicating a move towards using waste as a resource and a more circular economy.