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What percentage of municipal waste is recovered by material recycling?

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Values among 41 countries

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Definition:	Proportion of municipal waste recovered by material recycling
Year:	2020
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE
Exceptions:	AUT (2019), BGR (2018), GRC (2019), ITA (2019)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Municipal waste by waste management operations [env_wasmun] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extraced June 10th, 2022
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2017), CAN (2018), CHL (2018), ISL (2018), JPN (2019), KOR (2019), MEX (2012), TUR (2019), USA (2018)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Municipal waste, Generation and Treatment URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extraced June 10th, 2022
Source 3:	UNSD Environmental Indicators and Selected Time Series
Data for:	NZL
Exceptions:	NZL (1999)
Annotation:	UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Dataset: Time Series, percentage of municipal waste collected which is recycled URL: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/… extracted October 18th, 2016

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	54.455
Minimum:	0
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Source 1: Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Top group

Score

Material Recycling

South Korea

10.0

56.52

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Upper middle group

Germany

8.9

47.78

Slovenia

8.4

44.97

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Denmark

6.9

35.50

Belgium

6.8

35.34

Norway

6.8

35.26

Latvia

6.4

32.43

Ireland

6.2

31.53

Italy

6.0

30.02

Lower middle group

Switzerland

5.9

29.75

Bulgaria

5.9

29.73

Luxembourg

5.9

29.37

Croatia

5.7

28.71

Slovakia

5.7

28.64

Finland

5.7

28.19

Netherlands

5.6

27.72

Poland

5.4

26.59

Austria

5.3

26.19

Estonia

5.3

26.11

5.3

25.81

Australia

5.1

24.57

Lithuania

5.0

24.43

USA

4.9

23.63

France

4.7

22.62

Hungary

4.7

22.25

Czechia

4.6

21.70

Iceland

4.4

20.57

Sweden

4.3

20.19

Canada

4.2

19.54

Japan

4.2

19.19

Spain

4.1

18.90

Greece

3.6

16.03

New Zealand

3.5

15.30

Cyprus

3.5

15.27

Portugal

3.1

12.67

Turkey

3.0

11.95

Bottom group

Malta

2.7

10.58

Romania

2.2

7.32

Israel

2.1

6.43

Mexico

1.8

4.99

Chile

1.1

0.45