Biodegradability
(asked on 5th January 2018) - 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 waste his Department classifies as biodegradable waste.
Data on biodegradable municipal waste to landfill is produced annually in accordance with the Waste Framework Directive, and published in our UK Statistics on Waste statistical release.
Biodegradable municipal waste is defined based on an agreed set of European Waste Catalogue (EWC) codes to represent ‘municipal waste’, and biodegradability factors are applied to each code. The list of biodegradable municipal waste codes is summarised in the table below.
EWC code | Code description |
15 01 01 | paper and cardboard packaging |
15 01 05 | composite packaging |
15 01 06 | mixed packaging |
15 01 09 | textile packaging |
19 05 01 | non-composted fraction of municipal and similar wastes |
19 05 02 | non-composted fraction of animal and vegetable waste |
19 05 03 | off-specification compost |
19 05 99 | wastes not otherwise specified |
19 06 04 | digestate from anaerobic treatment of municipal waste |
19 06 05 | liquor from anaerobic treatment of animal and vegetable waste |
19 06 06 | digestate from anaerobic treatment of animal and vegetable waste |
19 06 99 | wastes not otherwise specified |
19 12 01 | paper and cardboard |
19 12 06 | wood containing dangerous substances |
19 12 07 | wood other than that mentioned in 19 12 06 |
19 12 08 | textiles |
19 12 10 | combustible waste (refuse derived fuel) |
19 12 12 | other wastes (including mixtures of materials) from mechanical treatment of wastes other than those mentioned in 19 12 11 |
20 01 01 | paper and cardboard |
20 01 08 | biodegradable kitchen and canteen waste |
20 01 10 | clothes |
20 01 11 | textiles |
20 01 25 | edible oil and fat |
20 01 26 | oil and fat other than those mentioned in 20 01 25 |
20 01 37 | wood containing dangerous substances |
20 01 38 | wood other than that mentioned in 20 01 37 |
20 01 99 | other fractions not otherwise specified |
20 02 01 | biodegradable waste |
20 03 01 | mixed municipal waste |
20 03 02 | waste from markets |
20 03 03 | street cleaning residues |
20 03 04 | septic tank sludge |
20 03 06 | waste from sewage cleaning |
20 03 07 | bulky waste |
20 03 99 | municipal wastes not otherwise specified |