Waste recycling (i61)

Definition: the share of municipal waste recycled and composted/fermented. This indicator must be put in parallel with the indicator on municipal waste collection. Municipal waste is household waste collected by municipal collection services, container parks, street sweepers, etc., but does not include construction materials. This waste can be treated in four ways: landfilling, incineration (with or without energy recovery), recycling and composting/fermentation. From 2020, similar waste from sources such as commerce, offices and public institutions are included in this indicator. This change has been applied from 2020 in Belgium, but has not yet been implemented in all European countries. For this reason, two time series are presented, depending on the definition used. Statistics Belgium organises this data collection in Belgium and makes the results available, in particular to Eurostat. The data used here for the FPB calculations come from Eurostat, which publishes detailed and comparable results between EU Member States.