DE · 2021 · ten00062
Recovery rates for packaging waste
Germany, 2021
In 2021, Germany's recovery rates for packaging waste increased by 0.2% compared to 2020, reaching 96.2.
Germany accounts for 120.9% of the EU-27 total of 79.6.
Germany ranks 4th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.0% (from 97.2 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset ten00062, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.