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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) amount and (b) proportion of municipal waste collected as recyclable waste is exported.

Data on exports of waste materials generally is published by HMRC and is available at the following link https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Pages/Home.aspx

In 2015 the UK exported 14 million tonnes of scrap materials (recyclable materials left over from product manufacturing and consumption, which had a monetary value including textiles, rubber, plastic, paper, copper, aluminium, nickel, lead, zinc, tin and ferrous metals (Digest of waste and Resources Statistics 2017 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/607416/Digest_of_Waste_and_Resource_Statistics__2017_rev.pdf

Data is not held in the specific format requested.