Flash Eurobarometer 456: SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets

This survey follows up on past Eurobarometer surveys (FL342 in 2012, FL381 in 2013 and FL426 in 2015) in reviewing the current levels of resource efficiency actions and the state of the green market amongst Europe’s SMEs, as well as in neighbouring countries and in the US. Topics covered include current and planned resource efficiency actions, barriers when implementing resource efficiency actions, the role and impact of different types of external support used by SMEs for the production of green products or services and the current state of the green markets.
This Eurobarometer clearly shows that: • Just under two thirds of SMEs across the EU are minimising waste (65%) and saving energy (63%) in their efforts to become more resource efficient • Regarding circular economy actions, 42% recycle by reusing material or waste within their company, 25% design products that are easier to maintain, repair or reuse and 21% sell their scrap material to another company

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

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