Packaging sent to landfill plummets 43 per cent in 11 years

Related topics: Packaging The amount of packaging sent to landfill by EU-15 members dropped by 43 per cent in just over a decade thanks to soaring recovery and recycling rates, said the European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (Europen). The packaging body said its analysis has show the volume of packaging waste going to ‘final disposal’ – sent to landfill or burned without energy recovery – in the EU15 states in 2008 was just over 17m tonnes compared to around 30m in 1998. The findings are part of its report- Packaging and Packaging Waste Statistics in Europe 1998-2008.