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5% increase in municipal waste generation in 2022
According to estimates of the Statistical Service, the total amount of municipal solid waste generated in Cyprus amounted to 615 thousand tonnes in 2022 compared to 585 thousand tonnes in 2021, an increase of 5%.
Of the 469 thousand tonnes that received final disposal in 2022, 77.5% was disposed of in disposal sites (landfills, landfills), 17.2% was forwarded for recycling, 3.1% was used for energy recovery and 2.2% was composted.
The average amount of municipal waste generated per capita in the European Union (EU) in 2022 was 513 kilograms.
The average amount of municipal waste generated per capita in the European Union (EU) in 2022 was 513 kilograms. In Cyprus, per capita municipal waste generation reached 673 kg, the 5th highest among EU Member States in 2022. Austria had the highest municipal waste generation per capita (835 kg, 2021 data) followed by Denmark (787 kg), Luxembourg (721 kg), Belgium (677 kg) and Cyprus (673 kg).
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Index
[/TD] [TD]Unit
[/TD] [TD]Unit
[/TD] [TD]2010
[/TD] [TD]2015
[/TD] [TD]2018
[/TD] [TD]2019
[/TD] [TD]2020
[/TD] [TD]2021
[/TD] [TD]2021
[/TD] [TD]2022
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Waste Generation
[/TD] [TD]000's of tons
[/TD] [TD]589,77
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]539,75
[/TD] [TD]575.63
[/TD] [TD]585.73
[/TD] [TD]557.73
[/TD] [TD]585.24
[/TD] [TD]614,62
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]
Per capita production
[/TD] [TD]kg/person
[/TD] [TD]713
[/TD] [TD]640
[/TD] [TD]661
[/TD] [TD]665
[/TD] [TD]625
[/TD] [TD]650
[/TD] [TD]673
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] [TD]Waste Management
[/TD] [TD]000's of tonnes
[/TD] [TD]563,39
[/TD] [TD]499.71
[/TD] [TD]494.01
[/TD] [TD]484.52
[/TD] [TD]467,36
[/TD] [TD]
450.13
[/TD] [TD]468,9
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Disposition
[/TD] [TD]
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[/TD] [TD]497,86
[/TD] [TD]409.99
[/TD] [TD]392.86
[/TD] [TD]379.39
[/TD] [TD]364.14
[/TD] [TD]354.30
[/TD] [TD]363,34
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Recycling
[/TD] [TD]"
[/TD] [TD]65.53
[/TD] [TD]71,83
[/TD] [TD]87,87
[/TD] [TD]91,42
[/TD] [TD]89,61
[/TD] [TD]75,03
[/TD] [TD]80,82
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Composting
[/TD] [TD]"
[/TD] [TD]0,00
[/TD] [TD]17,89
[/TD] [TD]9,30
[/TD] [TD]8,08
[/TD] [TD]5,77
[/TD] [TD]6,87
[/TD] [TD]10,14
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Energy Recovery
[/TD] [TD]
"
[/TD] [TD]0,00
[/TD] [TD]0,00
[/TD] [TD]3,98
[/TD] [TD]5,63
[/TD] [TD]7,83
[/TD] [TD]13,93
[/TD] [TD]14,69
[/TD] [/TR]
p = preliminary data
Methodological information
Definitions
Definitions
Municipal waste is waste collected by or on behalf of municipal authorities. They include household and similar waste, as well as waste from commercial and related activities, office buildings and institutions (schools, hospitals, government buildings). It also includes bulky waste and garden waste, leaves, branches, twigs, vegetables, and waste from street cleaning. Municipal waste is collected either door-to-door with traditional collection (mixed household waste) or separately for recovery purposes (mainly for recycling purposes, door-to-door collection and/or voluntary dumping). Also included are wastes similar in nature and composition which: 1) are collected directly by the private sector (businesses or private non-profit institutions) rather than on behalf of municipalities (mainly separate collection for recovery purposes); and 2) come from rural areas not served by a normal waste collection service, even if disposed of by the producer. It does not include: septic tank sludge, sludge from urban waste water treatment and municipal waste from construction and demolition.
Recycling is defined as any reprocessing of materials in the production process that transforms those materials so that they cease to be waste, other than their reuse as fuel. It includes both reprocessing as the same type of material and for different uses. Direct recycling within industrial plants where they are produced is not included.
Composting is defined as a biological process that subjects biodegradable waste to anaerobic or aerobic decomposition and results in a product that is used in soil or for crop production or as a substrate.
Incineration refers to the thermal treatment of waste in an incineration plant in order to reduce its volume and hazardousness and to produce a product that can be disposed of.
Energy recovery refers to the incineration and co-incineration of waste in power plants and industrial facilities, such as cement kilns, so that the resulting energy can be used to generate heat or electricity.
Disposal refers to the dumping or burial of waste in landfills (concrete pits), including specially equipped sites and temporary storage sites for more than one year. It covers both concrete pits created by the waste producer on the site of production and external disposal sites.
For more information the public can visit the Statistical Service Portal, under Environment, CYSTAT-DB (Database), Predefined Tables (Excel), Methodological Information or contact Ms Marilena Kythraiotou at 22602137 or by email at mkythreotou@cystat.mof.gov.cy.
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