Waste recycling (i60)

Definition: municipal waste is 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. The indicator on waste recycling is calculated as the share of municipal waste in the latter two categories, recycling and composting/fermentation. This indicator must be put in parallel with the indicator on municipal waste collection. 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.