Bulgaria
Legal system
EPR system
Impacts on health and on the environment
Technological innovations
Main ELT management organisation
Bulgaria has several industry PROs.
Opportunities and drivers
ELT treatment
- Most ELT is diverted into material recovery, while energy recovery is rather insignificant.
- A substantive percentage is also unknown. From 2019 to 2023, the unknown share ranges from 13% to 39.5%.
- As an outlier, there was a higher percentage of energy recovery in 2021 than in previous years.
Major changes in legislation/policy since 2016
Barriers and challenges
ELT Data:
Metric kilotons
%
Total Generated
42.6
100.0%
Material Recovery
22.6
53.0%
Civil Engineering Applications
0.0
-
Energy Recovery
3.0
7.0%
No Recovery
0.0
-
Backfilling
0.0
-
Incineration
0.0
-
Landfill Includes Stockpiled
0.0
-
Unknown
17.0
40.0%
Total recovery (material + energy)
25.6
60.0%
Total collected (coverage of data)
42.6
100.0%