GHG emissions from centralized waste processing

GHG emissions from waste management in France

Note: not including waste incineration with energy recovery (included in "Energy industry"). Citepa does not produce provisional estimates for waste; data therefore stop at 2023.
Source: Secten format - Citepa, 2025

Waste management mainly emits methane when waste decomposes in landfills. After rising in the 1990s, emissions from this sector have been falling since the mid-2000s in France (-25% between 2005 and 2023).