Select Committee on Environmental Audit Minutes of Evidence

Supplementary Memoranda submitted by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Treatment of municipal waste

	Mechanical recycling	Composting	Incineration	Landfilling
Member state	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent	Per cent
A	23	15	14	48
B	21	2	38	39
D	23	5	17	51
DK	9	—	79	12
E	1	11	5	83
F	—	7	46	47
FIN	30	3	2	65
Gr	7	—	—	93
Irl	8	—	—	92
It	—	—	6	94
L	26	3	43	28
NL	28	18	31	23
P	—	12	—	88
S	16	3	42	39
UK	6	1	6	88

Sources: Annexed reports, compendium OCDE 1997 and IBGE.

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Prepared 18 May 1998