Conor Walsh

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

don't get recycled.

So an independent report was commissioned actually by the IWMA a couple of years ago, but UK independent company did the work and they're experts in this area.

And they actually put the Germans at 57%, not at 69%.

So the Germans are hugely overestimating.

The Welsh as well, they put a 51%, would you believe, from a claim of 68%.

And they put the Austrians at 55 from a claim of 63.

So, look, the reality is the best recycling, when you're using the proper methodology that the EU requires, the best recycling country in the world is Germany at 57%.

Now, we think we're close to 50% right now.

Well,

Yeah, and the main difference between us and Germany actually is garden waste.

So garden waste is heavy and they collect massive quantities.

You know, 10% of their recycling rate, like out of that 57% I'm talking about, if they didn't collect as much garden waste, they'd be at 47%.

They'd be where we are.

So we don't collect a huge amount of garden waste.

And that's because we charge as pay as you go and people tend to keep the garden waste in their garden more often than not.

We do collect some.

But the countries that collect the most garden waste have the highest recycling rates.

and the EU isn't either in a sense.

Even though we have targets of up to 65% recycling, the EU is now questioning whether they're going to enforce those targets in the way that they might have.

Because they can see most of the countries in Europe are not going to get to 65%.

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