Bulgaria is the only European Union country, which sends all of the garbage that it churns out to the landfill, according to official Eurostat figures on municipal waste and the way Europeans deal with the trash.

The Europeans who produce the most rubbish are the Danes, the Cypriots and the Irish, according to the figures.

While rubbish for the average Dane tipped the scales at more than 800 kilos, the Czechs were the least rubbishy, producing a comparatively abstemious 300 kilos or so. The overall EU average was about half a tonne.

The treatment methods differ substantially from one country to another: landfill, incineration and recycling. Eurostat says 40% of the stuff is recycled or incinerated.

Romania, Malta, Lithuania and Latvia follow closely Bulgaria and form a group of countries, where less than 10% of waste was recycled.

Austria shows up the most environmentally responsible (70% of its waste is recycled or composted). The Danes may produce the most but they also burn the most — more than half. The Czechs send over 80 percent of their 306 kilos of municipal waste each to landfill sites, only recycling two percent, and composting the same.

Germany, Sweden and Belgium recycle the most.

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