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Press release No. N019 of 22 March 2023 5.5 kilograms per capita: 462,500 tonnes of old clothes and second-hand textiles were exported from Germany in 2022
...In relation to the total population in Germany, this represented 5.5 kilograms of second-hand textiles which were exported per capita in 2022....
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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 …
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Press release No. N 016 of 3 March 2021 Exports of plastic waste down 33% in 2020 compared with ten years earlier
...From the waste bin into the shipping container: more than one million tonnes of plastic waste were exported from Germany last year Germany is the EU’s largest plastic waste exporter Before the coronavirus pandemic: the per capita quantity of recyclables collected from households amounted to 146 kilograms in 2019 WIESBADEN - Many goods are packaged in plastic in Germany; the waste generated is recycled, disposed in landfills, burned or leaves the country in the form of trading goods. ...