Packaging Waste Management and the Main Challenges in Recycling Processes
Abstract
Separate collection of packaging is an important step towards a circular economy. Setting a mandatory collection rate is an incentive for the development of efficient and well-targeted collection systems at national level, thus increasing the amount of waste sorted and potentially recycled. This article presents a comparative analysis, by waste type, of the evolution of packaging waste recycling, for the period 2008-2022. If in the period 2013-2022 the average of EU member states was 65.74% for recycling rates of packaging waste, in Romania the rate it was 50.31%, which involves a series of additional efforts. At the national level, during the period 2013-2022, the highest percentage of packaging waste recycling is represented by paper, cardboard 74.35% and metal a percentage of 56.02%, with wood waste in last place at 23.77%.
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