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Releases

2020

Municipal waste

• Amount of municipal waste continued growing in 2020 - most of waste was still recovered as energy (9.12.2021)

2019

• Waste generated in 2019 declined due to lower amoung of waste from mining and quarrying and construction (16.6.2021)

Municipal waste

• Amount of municipal waste grew slightly in 2019 - most of waste was still recovered as energy (9.12.2020)

2018

• Amount of waste generated in 2018 returned to the level of 2016 - the share of waste recovered as material grew slightly (17.6.2020)
• Preliminary data (15.1.2020)

2017

• Total amount of waste decreased in 2017 (9.7.2019)

Municipal waste

• Amount of municipal waste has not grown and recovery has replaced disposal at landfill sites (9.1.2019)

2016

• Mining and construction increased the total amount of waste in 2016 (31.8.2018)

Municipal waste

• Recovery of waste has replaced disposal of municipal waste at landfill sites (15.1.2018)

2015

• Amounts of waste from production both increased and decreased; the economic cycles of mining and quarrying pulled the total amount of waste in their direction in 2015 (15.6.2017)
• Preliminary data (20.12.2016)

2014

• Fire is not the solution for hazardous waste (26.5.2016)
• Preliminary data (1.12.2015)

2013

• Circular economy stumbling on rocks (28.5.2015)
• Preliminary data (27.11.2014)

2012

• Sixty-six per cent of combustible waste is burned (15.5.2014)
• Preliminary data (26.11.2013)

2011

• Changes in waste treatment (17.5.2013)
• Preliminary data (20.11.2012)