Plastics: Waste Disposal

(asked on 22nd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of plastic waste (a) was recycled, (b) was incinerated and (c) went to landfill in the latest period for which figures are available.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 1st December 2017

Data for waste generated and treatment are not structured specifically around material streams, so we cannot provide detailed information on the destination of total plastics waste.

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