The figures show that Wales recycled 52.5% of waste from its households in 2012 compared with 43.9% across the UK, and so Wales has already met the EU target to recycle 50% of waste from households by 2020.
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Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant said: "Wales has long been ambitious to increase our recycling rates, to help generate secondary materials for the Welsh economy. The EU target is to recycle at least 50% by 2020, which we have already comfortably met, and we are already looking towards our Welsh target of 70% recycling by 2025.
"Our natural resources ultimately underpin both our economy and our society and increasing the materials we recycle in our homes and businesses is a practical step more and more people in Wales are taking to help protect the wonderful resources we have."
(CD/JP)
