Share of municipal waste treatment in the EU-27 2021, by method
overall recycling rate in the EU stood at almost 50 percent in 2021. Landfilling accounted for 23 percent of EU municipal waste treatment in 2021. While the amount of municipal waste generated in EU has remained more or less stable in the past two decades, the share that is landfilled has fallen considerably.
In 2021, recycling accounted for more than 30 percent of municipal waste managed in the European Union (EU-27). When combined with compositing, the