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Date: June 3, 2025 Waste balance 2023
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Date: April 24, 2025 Waste treatment plants 2023
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Date: February 21, 2025 Waste treatment plants 2023
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Date: June 3, 2024 Waste balance 2022
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Date: February 27, 2024 Waste treatment plants 2022
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Date: February 20, 2024 Waste treatment plants 2022
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Date: June 2, 2023 Waste balance 2021
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Date: March 29, 2023 Waste treatment plants 2021
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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
Germany exported approximately 462,500 tonnes of old clothes and second-hand textiles in 2022. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of 10.7% compared with the previous year (518,100 tonnes). In relation to the …
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Press release No. 546 of 19 December 2022 New record volume of household waste generated in 2021
The volume of waste produced by households in Germany continued to rise in 2021. 483 kilograms of household waste per capita were collected according to provisional data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was an increase by 6 …
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Press release No. 371 of 5 September 2022 14.4 million tonnes of biowaste in 2020
Households in Germany composted approximately 2.6 million tonnes of biowaste in 2020. Based on an estimate prepared for the first time, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this is an average of roughly 31 kilograms of home …
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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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Date: June 3, 2022 Waste balance 2020
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Press release No. 229 of 3 June 2022 Volume of waste slightly down in Covid year 2020
In the Covid year of 2020, 414.0 million tonnes of waste was disposed of in Germany, according to provisional results. This was a decline of 0.6% or 2.5 million tonnes compared with 2019. To coincide with the World Environment Day on 5 June 2022, the …
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Date: April 29, 2022 Waste treatment plants 2020
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Date: March 16, 2022 Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2020
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Date: March 14, 2022 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2020
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Date: March 14, 2022 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2020
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Press release No. 108 of 14 March 2022 Per capita packaging waste up by 6 kilograms in Covid year 2020
78 kilograms of packaging waste per capita were collected from households in Germany in the Covid year of 2020. That was an average increase of 6 kilograms per person on 2019. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis …
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Press release No. 058 of 11 February 2022 Recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment up 11.2% in 2020
In 2020, 1,037,000 tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment were recycled, otherwise recovered or disposed of in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the quantity of waste equipment that was accepted for …
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Date: February 11, 2022 Waste treatment plants 2020
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Press release No. 584 of 20 December 2021 Per capita household waste up by 19 kilograms in Covid year 2020
The volume of waste produced by households in Germany rose considerably in the Covid year of 2020. According to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), a total of 39.6 million tonnes of waste were collected from households.That …
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Press release No. 348 of 19 July 2021 23.9 million tonnes of hazardous waste in 2019
In 2019, a total of 23.9 million tonnes of hazardous waste was generated in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of 0.1 million tonnes on the previous year (2018: 23.8 million tonnes). Construction and …
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Date: June 4, 2021 Waste balance 2019
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Press release No. 261 of 4 June 2021 Waste generation remained high in Germany in 2019
According to provisional results, the amount of waste generated in Germany was 416.5 million tonnes in 2019. To mark the World Environment Day on 5 June 2021, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the quantity of waste remained …
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Press release No. 242 of 21 May 2021 62% of industrial packaging waste con-sists of paper and board
In 2019, 4.9 million tonnes of used transport, secondary and sales packaging were col-lected in the industrial sector in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 0.1 million tonnes on 2018.
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Date: May 20, 2021 Waste treatment plants 2019
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Date: April 12, 2021 Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2019
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Date: March 17, 2021 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2019
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Date: March 17, 2021 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2019
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Press release No. 132 of 17 March 2021 Packaging waste 2019: per capita collection up by 4 kilograms on a year earlier
In 2019, 72 kilograms of packaging waste per capita were collected from private final users in Germany. This was an average increase of 4 kilograms per person compared to 2018. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office …
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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
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. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that …
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Date: February 12, 2021 Waste treatment plants 2019
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Press release No. 511 of 16 December 2020 457 kilograms of household waste per capita in 2019: 2 kilograms more than in 2018
In 2019, a total of 38.0 million tonnes of waste were collected from households. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of approximately 0.3 million tonnes, or 0.8%, compared with …
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Date: June 2, 2020 Waste balance 2018
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Press release No. 195 of 2 June 2020 417.2 million tonnes of waste generated in Germany in 2018
According to provisional results, the amount of waste generated in Germany in 2018 increased by 1.2% to 417.2 million tonnes compared with the previous year. Due to the good economic situation in the construction sector, the highest increase was …
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Date: May 4, 2020 Waste treatment plants 2018
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Date: April 20, 2020 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2018
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Date: April 20, 2020 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2018
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Date: April 16, 2020 Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2018
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Press release No. 103 of 19 March 2020 68 kilograms of packaging waste per capita in 2018
In 2018, an average 68 kilograms of sales packaging per capita was collected from private final users in Germany, which had been separated from residual waste. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the amount …
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Date: April 4, 2019 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2017
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Date: April 3, 2019 Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2017
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Press release No. 194 of 1 June 2018 412 million tonnes of waste generated in Germany in 2016
According to provisional results, the amount of waste generated in Germany increased to 411.5 million tonnes in 2016. To coincide with the World Environment Day on 5 June, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the increase was …
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Date: April 10, 2018 Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2016
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Date: March 12, 2018 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2017
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Date: March 12, 2018 Used sales packaging collected from private final consumers in 2016
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Date: March 5, 2018 Waste treatment plants 2018
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