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Recycling rate of packaging waste in the EU-27 2005-2021
The recycling rate of packaging waste in the European Union was 64 percent in 2021, the same figure recorded a year earlier. Those are also the lowest figures recorded since 2010. Packaging waste recycling in the bloc peaked in 2016, with a rate of 67.6 percent.