Question for other EU residents

I don't know about all of the EU, but here in Finland (and I suspect the rest of the Nordic world along with much or the rest of the northern and western countries), we can recycle virtually everything. What we can't recycle, we burn for energy in a way that does not f-up the air or water. I mean I'm sure most of the world is worse than us on eco-everything so I have to believe that our garbage incineration is good. We do fail on still getting like 4% or our energy from peat which is appalling though I think they're trying to phase that out.

Anyway, for my question, when recycling is so awesome, other than reducing what we use and reusing what we can, what are the ways we can be even better. 100% of food waste is turned into compost, we return all beverage containers for money, old household items are sold, traded or taken to what we call recycling centers but is similar to Goodwill in the US. We have more water than can be used in the south of the country (like they have to dump a portion of our treated water as we just don't use it all). Our next car will be electric and no we will never stop using our wood sauna....this would be like asking an American to stop eating apple pie. Yes I know we have it a whole lot better than most of the world...but we also have the ability to do more more easily so I'm wondering what other EU residents do that I might not be thinking of. And I'm American by birth and Finnish by quasi-marriage (we don't have to get married to have the same rights in Finland).

TYIA