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The composition of the French household waste plastics was determined by ADEME with the
MODECOM methodology in 1993:

Table 37: Waste plastics management in France (1993)

Type of waste plastic
Kg/inh/y

per cent

PE and PP films

24.1

52.2

PS packaging

4.6

10.0

PVC bottles

4.6

10.0

Other Polyolefins

2.9

6.3

PE and PP bottles

2.8

6.1

PET packaging

1.9

4.1

Other Plastics

1.9

4.1

PVC packaging

1.3

2.8

Other PS

1.1

2.4

Other PVS

1.0

2.2

46.2

100.0

Total
Table Source: CNR

Agricultural plastics in Andalusia79

In Andalusia, the importance of the plastics in the agricultural activities grew dramatically in recent
years. Land used for cultivation under plastic reached 70,000 ha in 1999. Sixty per cent of agricultural HDPE films sold in Spain were used in this region (>30 000 tpa, or 430 kg/ha).

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The Region of Brussels (Belgium)

In Brussels, waste analyses during 1999 focused, in part, on plastic packaging and films. Other plastics
were not considered during that particular waste analysis campaign. There are systems in place for
the selective collection of the plastic bottles, but these do not include plastic films and bags.

Table 38 : Household waste plastics from kerbside collection

in Brussels, Belgium (1999, kg/inh/y)
Fraction

Mixed
waste

Packaging
waste

PET transparent bottles

1.9

1.1

PET coloured bottles

1.0

0.5

1.5

PE

1.3

0.5

1.8

Other packaging

3.6

0.4

4.1

Total packaging

7.8

2.5

10.3

Garbage bag

2.9

0.3

0.2

3.4

Retail bag

3.3

0.1

0.0

3.4

Plastic film

3.4

0.3

0.1

3.8

Other plastic

6.4

0.1

0.0

6.5

Total non packaging

16.1

0.8

0.2

17.1

Total Plastics

23.9

3.3

0.2

27.4

PVC bottles

Papers
& card

Total

Garbage bags present in the kerbside selective collection of papers and cardboards come mainly
from the bags used for this collection.
For the same year, the output of the sorting plant was:

Table 39 : Household waste plastic bottles output from sorting plant

in Brussels, Belgium (1999, kg/inh/y)
HDPE
Blue LDPE
bottles
bottles
0.38

0.24

White PET
bottles

Coloured PET
bottles

PVC
bottles

Total

1.02

0.10

0.00

1.74

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