Total recycled quantities for six key material types in the EU27
including exports for recycling (11.1) Justification for
indicator selection This particular question and indicator are
part of an over-arching framework of questions and set of
indicators that were developed to measure Europe’s progress
towards Sustainable Consumption and Production. More information
on the framework of questions and the indicator set are
available at […]. This question concerns the reuse and recycling
of end-of-life products to reduce, as far as possible, the
demand for virgin materials. The term ‘closed loop’ refers to an
ideal situation where materials from waste products are returned
directly to the production chain of equivalent products. The
indicator is of relevance to the question since it investigates
whether material recovery of some key material streams is on the
increase and thus whether or not materials are increasingly
being returned back into the economy. As such it also gives an
indication of whether drivers are