Municipal waste recycling rate
Municipal waste recycled, including composting and anaerobic digestion, as a percentage of municipal waste generated.
Stricter EU calculation rules apply from reference year 2020 in some countries; Eurostat marks those changes as series breaks.
Key facts
- Municipal waste recycling rate in the European Union (27) was 48.1% in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Germany had the highest municipal waste recycling rate of 27 EU countries in 2023, at 68.7%, and Romania the lowest, at 12.4%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2000 to 2024.
Rankings
EU countries by municipal waste recycling rate, 2023
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Ireland
- Denmark
- Cyprus
- Estonia
- Austria
- Latvia
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest municipal waste recycling rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"municipal_waste_recycling_rate","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=municipal_waste_recycling_rate&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)