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Article from: Waste News Article date: April 16, 2007

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Study: European waste market at $133B

A new study shows that the waste management and recycling industry in the European Union has annual revenue of about 100 billion Euros, or $133 billion U.S. dollars.

The European waste management and recycling market, according to study author Frost & Sullivan, benefits from the strong environmental laws established by the European Union.

"This has been done to prevent any irreversible damage that a slow growing and uncompetitive recycling ...

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