Conor Walsh

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437 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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The Claire Byrne Show · Going Green: Recycling and landfill figures for Europe · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Not much, no.

I mean, less than 1%.

Yeah, and the overall picture is less than 1%.

It's about 30,000 tonnes.

You know, and look, it...

It's I would say that Greece could do it one right now because the plastic bottles are all over the streets.

So, you know, there is there is a lot of good in it.

But look, in terms of the best performing countries, though, because, you know, traditionally the Germans and the Austrians and those would be top of the league, the Belgians.

Dutch, and the Scandinavian countries to some degree as well.

But there is a story kind of behind what the statistics show, though, because statistically in Eurostat data, Germany claims 69% recycling.

Wales actually have put a lot of effort into it, 68%, and Austria, 63%.

So they'd be the top three in the world, probably.

However, they're very political.

The statistics are put together by the ministries.

Now, in Ireland, they're put together by the EPA and the EPA is not political.

And our statistics follow the rules to the letter.

Their statistics don't.

And the Germans are using an old system where if they collected something for recycling, they said it was recycled.

Now, in reality, a lot of things collected for recycling are

suitable for recycling

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