Europe produced an average of 492 kg of urban waste by person during 2012, 480 kg of this waste, had a treatment. Waste produced: 34% went to garbage dump, 24% was for energetic value, 27% recycled, and 15% compost. These data, published by Eurostat, show an important increase of the compost rate, over the last few years, they went from 18% in 1995 to 42% in 2012. We observe large differences between Estate Member in the Municipal waste production. Denmark, with 668 kilogram per person, produced the major waste in 2012, followed by Cyprus, Luxembourg y Germany, with lower amounts, but above 600 kg. We found a group of countries with levels between 500 and 600 kg: Malta, Ireland, Austria, Netherland, France, Italy, Finland and Greece. UK, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belgium, Portugal and Hungary were in levels from 400 to 500 kg. Under 400 kilograms by person, there were: Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia and Estonia. Germany, Belgium and Austria recycled o composted more than 50% of the urban waste. This option of treatment was the main choice of Netherlands (50%), Luxembourg (47%), UK (46%),
Ireland (45%) and France (39%). Nevertheless, Finland, composted, recycled and burned up in the same proportion (34%). State Member that use garbage dump for their urban waste as main choice was: Romania (87%), Malta (87%), Croatia (85%), Latvia (84%). Energy valuation was the option for: Denmark (52%), Sweden (52%), Netherlands (49%), Belgium (42%), Luxembourg (36%), Germany (35%, Austria (35%), Finland (34%) and France (33%). In 2012, Spain produced 464 kilograms per person urban waste. 64,4% of them went to garbage dump, 10,1% composted, 9,5% was for energetic valuation, and the rest of 17% was recycled. Source: Repacar