Eurostat published figures on the amount of municipal waste generated by Member States which show that 486 kg of municipal waste was treated person while 502 kg of municipal waste was generated per person in the EU. The municipal waste was treated in 2010 in different ways, being landfilled, the most commonly used way.

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, published its report on figures for municipal waste in the EU in 2010, and the according to such figures, 502 kg of municipal waste was generated per person in 2010, while 486 kg of municipal waste was
treated per person. This municipal waste was treated in different ways: 38% was landfilled, 22% incinerated, 25% recycled and 15% composted. In 2009, landfilling was also the most common method to treat municipal waste.

With regard to the amount of municipal waste generated by Member States, Cyprus had the highest amount of waste generated in 2010 -760 kg per person, followed Luxembourg, Denmark and Ireland with values between 600 and 700 kg per person. Values of below 400 kg per person were recorded in Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Latvia.

On the ways to treat municipal waste, in 2010 the Member States with the highest share of municipal waste landfilled were Bulgaria (100% of waste treated), Romania (99%), Lithuania (94%) and Latvia (91%). The highest shares of incinerated municipal waste were observed in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Recycling was most common in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands, while the Member States with the highest composting  rates for municipal waste -i.e. the biological treatment (anaerobic or aerobic) of biodegradable matter resulting in a recoverable product, were Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and Spain.