Croatia
Legal system
Tax-based system
Impacts on health and on the environment
Technological innovations
Main ELT management organisation
Opportunities and drivers
ELT treatment
- Overall, the values demonstrate stability across the observed period, with material recovery representing the predominant treatment method, followed by energy recovery, which comprises approximately 1 kt per year.
- Material recovery demonstrated a marginal increase in 2022 relative to preceding years.
- The volume categorized as “unknown” remained relatively constant between 2019 and 2023, fluctuating between 3 kt and 5 kt.
Major changes in legislation/policy since 2016
Barriers and challenges
ELT Data:
Metric kilotons
%
Total Generated
27.8
100.0%
Material Recovery
23.0
83.0%
Civil Engineering Applications
0.0
-
Energy Recovery
0.5
2.0%
No Recovery
0.0
-
Backfilling
0.0
-
Incineration
0.0
-
Landfill Includes Stockpiled
0.0
-
Unknown
4.3
15.0%
Total recovery (material + energy)
23.6
85.0%
Total collected (coverage of data)
27.8
100.0%