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What percentage of municipal waste is recovered by material recycling?

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Definition:	Proportion of municipal waste recovered by material recycling
Year:	2018
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, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR
Exceptions:	CYP (2017), GRC (2017), ISL (2017), IRL (2017)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Municipal waste by waste management operations [env_wasmun] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.e… extracted March 3rd, 2020
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2017), CAN (2016), CHL (2017), JPN (2017), KOR (2016), MEX (2012), USA (2017)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Municipal waste, Generation and Treatment URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted May 20th, 2020
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:	54.23875
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

59.18

Germany

9.2

49.59

Upper middle group

Slovenia

8.1

42.59

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Belgium

6.8

34.79

Ireland

6.2

31.42

Denmark

6.2

31.33

Norway

6.1

30.99

Switzerland

6.1

30.87

Sweden

6.0

29.95

Lower middle group

Finland

5.8

29.22

Hungary

5.8

29.13

Italy

5.8

28.86

Australia

5.7

28.03

Luxembourg

5.7

28.03

Bulgaria

5.6

27.90

5.5

27.21

Czechia

5.5

27.07

Netherlands

5.5

27.01

Slovakia

5.4

26.81

Poland

5.3

26.14

Austria

5.2

25.39

USA

5.2

25.09

France

5.2

25.05

Lithuania

5.0

24.35

Estonia

5.0

24.20

Croatia

4.7

22.45

Japan

4.3

19.82

Canada

4.2

19.46

Latvia

4.2

19.16

Iceland

4.2

19.05

Spain

4.0

18.32

New Zealand

3.5

15.30

Greece

3.4

14.68

Cyprus

3.4

14.29

Portugal

3.0

12.20

Bottom group

Turkey

2.8

11.08

Romania

2.3

7.72

Israel

2.1

6.73

Malta

2.1

6.56

Mexico

1.8

4.99

Chile

1.2

1.35

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