Romania produces 4.58 million tonnes of non-recycled municipal waste per year, respectively 12,500 tonnes per day, the country being the penultimate in the European Union in a ranking of the efficiency of the recycling rate of waste, according to the infographic Social Monitor, a project of Friedrich- Ebert-Stiftung Romania.

“The European Union has set as a target for 2020 that each country recycle at least 50% of the waste produced by its municipalities. Romania will miss this objective, as the recycling capacity has grown extremely little in recent years. At the European Union level, Romania is the penultimate in efficiency ranking from this point of view, recycling only 14% of municipal waste. Only Malta recycles a smaller percentage of the total municipal waste generated (6%),” says the source, quoted by Agerpres.

Unlike Romania, other states in the region manage to recycle around one third of municipal waste – Poland 34%, and Bulgaria and Hungary – 35%. The European Union champion for recycling is Germany, with a 68% recycling rate.