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Date: January 17, 2025 606kg municipal waste per capita in 2022: Germany above EU average

In 2022, the municipal waste per inhabitant in Germany amounted to a total of 606 kilograms. This was significantly above the EU average of 513 kilograms.

Date: May 6, 2025 Environment and energy

Current Eurostat statistics on greenhouse gas emissions, energy dependency and renewable energy of the EU countries.

Press release No. N 035 of 7 June 2022 25% less plastic waste exported in 2021 year on year

Germany exports markedly less plastic waste than a few years ago. In 2021, just over 766,200 tonnes of plastic waste was exported from Germany – that is one quarter less (-25.2%) than in 2020. At the time, just over one million tonnes had been …

Press release No. N 061 of 19 October 2021 Increasing use of renewable energy in all EU Member States

Renewable energy sources have been increasingly used in all 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) over the last years. On average, renewable energy sources accounted for 19.7% of gross final energy consumption in the EU in 2019, up from 13.9% …