EU budget gap holding back municipal waste reform

The report, released today, analyses the utilisation of EU waste management funding in nine central and eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland. It finds that many of these countries are lagging far behind optimal waste management practices, especially in biowaste separation and recycling. This is largely due to a lack of targeted funding for higher-tier waste management solutions, such as waste prevention, reduction, and recycling.