Waste Management in a European Country of 6,000 islands and Islets

However, waste management practices vary between EU countries, leading to important differences in the fulfillment of the targets set. For example, landfill rate of waste is recorded to be less than 10% in countries like Denmark, Belgium and Germany and more than 70% in countries like Malta, Bulgaria and Estonia. The factors leading to these deviations are of course several (e.g lack of funds and infrastructure, climate, limited space, important seasonal variation of population, high transport cost, etc.), so one must look into each country in depth, in order to find and promote solutions or at least amendments. In the case of Greece, where landfill rate of waste is around 60%, it is easy to realize that geomorphology and tourism are among the determining factors of its waste management practices' adoption and performance; but to what degree?