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Environment: Lithuania best for plastic packaging recycling

Good results also for Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czechia

13 January, 17:26
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, JAN 13 - Several EU countries from Central- and Eastern Europe are among the best in Europe for the recycling rate of plastic, the EU statistical office Eurostat said. In 2018, the highest recycling rate of plastic packaging waste was recorded in Lithuania (69.3%), ahead of Slovenia (60.4%, 2017 data), Bulgaria (59.2%), Czechia (57.0%), Cyprus (54.3%) and Slovakia (51.4%), according to Eurostat data. On the contrary, Hungary (30.0%) is among the EU countries where less than one-third of plastic packaging waste was recycled, together with Malta, France, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Austria and Luxembourg. At EU level, an estimated 41.5% of plastic packaging waste was recycled in 2018. (ANSA).

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