A statistical analysis of municipal waste treatment types in European countries

Abstract

In today’s world, the municipal waste management is becoming a main concern for every country and city. In environmental problems, how to collect and eliminate the municipal waste is extremely important. Different countries take different approaches towards the elimination of municipal waste and try to create policies. In this study, municipal waste treatment types for European Union (EU) and EU candidate countries is investigated. The data is taken from a report of EUROSTAT about municipal waste treated in European Union (EU) and EU candidate countries for 2012. There are 4 variables which form how municipal waste is treated in these countries. These variables are called as Recycled, Composted, Landfilled and Incinerated. Using correspondence analysis as a main statistical technique with the help of cluster analysis, a classification of the countries according to municipal waste treatment types is created.