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Only one per cent of Malta s plastic waste was recycled in 2019, with most ending up dumped in landfill, according to a new report published by the National Audit Office.
The NAO revealed the latest WasteServ statistics on how the island is managing its plastic trash and warned that it is lagging behind in reaching national and EU targets.
And it said government was shouldering the lion s share of waste management costs, overriding the polluter pays principle.
The latest statistics show that the proportion of waste being recycled dropped from five per cent in 2016 to one per cent in 2019.
Malta s exports of plastic waste soared during the same period. Of the 42,800 tonnes of plastic waste in Malta in 2019, some 36 per cent was exported, up from 10 per cent the previous year and one per cent in 2016.