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Of all European countries, Romania recycle only 3% of all the waste it produces, the rest being dumped at the landfill.
The opposite is Belgium, which recycle 94%.

Annual, by 2013, the targets for selective collection and recycling of packaging waste from Romania are gradually increasing until they reach European standards.
Romania's recycling target is 38% in 2009, 42% in 2010 and 46% in 2011.
In 2010, paper recycling targets are at 60%, plastic 14%, glass at 44% and metals at 50%.
If Romania misses the recovery and recycling targets it risks, fines of EUR 200,000 per day for each outstanding target.

Packaging recycling
Since 2016, the Romanian State has been obliged by European legislation to recycle a certain percentage of the quantities of packaging waste.

According to the National Environmental Protection Administration, in 2007 the total quantity of packaging placed on the market was over 1,250,000 tonnes, of which almost 400,000 tonnes were recycled (around 30% - the overall target to be achieved was 28%).

Der Grune Punkt (The Green Dot) is a European programme aimed at recycling packaging of consumer goods placed on the market by economic operators. The system was first introduced in Germany in 1991, and a network has since been created in many European countries.

The amount of garbage collected from Romanians is 8 million tonnes in one year.

In 2003 they used:
210,5 thousand tonnes of glass
235,2 thousand tonnes of paper and paperboard
236,5 thousand tons of plastic
104,7 thousand tonnes of metal

In Romania, in 2007, packaging waste was around 60% from the population, found in household waste, and 40% from economic operators.
In 2005, the quantity of packaging placed on the market was 1,140,000 tonnes of which 305,000 tonnes of packaging waste were recovered, with a total recovery rate of 26.6%, and recycled 265,000 tonnes of packaging waste, with a recycling rate of 23%.
The quantity of packaging recovered increased to 525,000 tonnes in 2006.

In 2009, European legislation obliges economic operators to recover and value 45% of all packaging put on the market, with the percentage increasing to 60% in 2013.
The Eco- Rom Packing Company was founded in late 2003 by a group of companies operating in Romania.
The founding members are Argus, Ball Packaging Europe, Chipita Romania, Coca-Cola HBC Romania, Heineken, Mars Romania, Munplast, Pepsi Americas, Romaqua Group Borsec, Tetrapak, Unilever, Titan.
Eco- Rom is the leader of the market for the recovery of packaging waste from economic operators.
The model is inspired by the European Union, where a green dot is printed on the packaging of basic products - symbol