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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:28:31 -0400 (EDT) From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: Latest overview of resouces recycling practices world over (K. Shah)
July 6, 2000
Dear K. Shah,
The English publication WARMER Bulletin gives national summaries, but rarely does it venture beyond the 1st world for a full blown survey. For example, the May, 2000 issue suggests that recycling is doing very well (relative to previus years' reports, not relative to one another) in Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany, and has done almost as well in Denmark, France, Norway and Spain:
Of all municipal solid waste, the following amounts were reported recycled or composted in the year in parentheses:
Austria: 34% (1996)
Denmark: 31% (1996)
France: 12% (1993)
Germany: 28% (1993)
Italy: 13% (1997)
Netherlands: 39% (1998)
Norway: 23% (1995)
Spain: 20% (1997)
Sweden: 34% (1997)
Switzerland: 42% (1996)
UK: 9% (1996)
Compared with North America:
US: 28% (1997)
Canada: 34% (1997)
I know that the latest Japanese figure was 4%, the latest figure from China was about 12%, and that the latest figure from Israel was 9%.
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