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| Total MSW (all materials) | Household and assimilated | Bulky waste and other | MSW per capita (kg/year/hab.) | |
| Bulgaria | 3 300 | 2 013 | 1 287 | 402 |
| Czech Republic | 3 400 | 2 400 | 1 000 | 333 |
| Estonia | 633 | 570 | 63 | 452 |
| Hungary | 4 300 | 2 537 | 1 763 | 430 |
| Latvia | 780 | 515 | 265 | 325 |
| Lithuania | 1 236 | 1 236 | 0 | 334 |
| Poland | 13 500 | 9 315 | 4 185 | 350 |
| Romania | 6 600 | 5 412 | 1 188 | 295 |
| Slovakia | 1 650 | 1 056 | 594 | 311 |
| Slovenia | 1080 | 886 | 194 | 540 |
| Cyprus | 369 | 306 | 63 | 461 |
| Malta | 188 | 105 | 83 | 470 |
| TOTAL | 37 036 | 26 351 | 10 685 | 351 |
Collection
Collection and recovery of plastics suffers along with other materials due to the limited collection infrastructure noted above. However, there are pockets of activity. In particular, Poland has seen growth in the collection of packaging waste in its big cities over the last five years and the country as a whole now has organised waste collection covering 90 per cent of its inhabitants.
A significant barrier to recovery exists across the region in the form of fly tipping – leading to around 10 per cent of all MSW being uncollectable in urban areas. In rural areas the problem is still worse, with the figure rising to 20-50 per cent. As a whole, around 80 per cent of all waste is landfilled.
Plastics packaging mechanical recycling in Accession countries, 2001
| Plastics packaging waste (household + distribution) (x1000 tonnes) | Mechanical recycling (%) | Comments | |
| Bulgaria | 143 | Probably very low | |
| Czech Republic | 98 | 6 to 7% | A structured plastics recycling activity has emerged. About 20-30 per cent of one-way PET bottles are collected and sorted. Through Eko-Kom and recyclers (the main one being SILON), they are recycled, mainly into fibres |
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Latvia |
26 | n.a. | Some facilities exist for PE recycling, but these are not currently operating at full capacity or on any significant scale |
| Lithuania | 47 | 9% | 14 ktonnes of post-user, of which 11 ktonnes imported |
| Poland | 454 | 8 to 9% | RekoPol claims a 3.5 per cent plastics recycling rate at the end of 2001. This is coherent with another source indicating that municipalities have collected about 17 ktonnes of plastics packaging waste for mechanical recycling (RekoPol) in 2000. According to non-official data, about 90 ktonnes of plastics waste was mechanically recycled in 2001. However, this volume probably includes a majority of processors waste. As a whole, the total volume of plastics packaging recycled was about 40 ktonnes |
| Romania | 348 | 2 to 3% | Only 1 to 2 per cent of plastics packaging is recovered by scavengers. However, in the last two years some private economic entities have initiated a sustained collection of packaging cardboard waste and PET bottles from large generating sources. Collected materials are exported to Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, China or Korea |
| Slovakia | 55 | 3% | 2 to 3 ktonnes recycled |
| Slovenia | 52 | 3% |
Recovery
Recovery levels overall remain low – largely due to a previous lack of political pressure and high cost – and is based mainly on plastics waste imports. However, some countries, such as Poland and the Czech Republic have set up recovery infrastructures which are starting to have some effect. In terms of mechanical recycling, plastics packaging waste is the chief sector activity, primarily led by PET bottle recycling. Structured systems have been set up in Poland and the Czech Republic, mainly recycling into fibres.
ELV recycling remains undeveloped, despite an ageing vehicle profile across the region and the fact that the number of scrapped cars increased 50 per cent between 1995 and 2001. Figures for the specific energy recovery of plastics are not available. However, energy recovery as a whole remains low with around 2 per cent of MSW recovered in this way. Again, there are prominent exceptions. Slovakia registers a 15 per cent rate of recovery in this way, Hungary 8 per cent although the central incinerator is likely to close soon) and the Czech Republic 5 per cent (around 100kt of plastics waste were recovered in 1999 through co-incineration in cement plants).
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