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Municipal waste - 12.02.2008
Amount of municipal waste "to grow by 25 % by 2020"
A study by the European Environment Agency states that the amount of municipal waste produced each year is expected to grow by 25 % from 2005 to 2020.
Each European citizen currently produces an average of over half a tonne.of municipal waste a year. This amount should further increase to 680 kg per person by 2020. This projected continuing increase in waste volumes is primarily due to an assumed sustained growth in private final consumption.
However, there are significant differences between citizens from the old (EU‑15) and the new EU Member States (EU‑12). While ...
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