Waste Disposal

(asked on 15th 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 (a) amount and (b) proportion of municipal waste collected as recyclable waste was (i) recycled, (ii) sent for incineration and (iii) sent to landfill in 2017.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 24th January 2018

Statistics for waste sent for recycling and recycling rejects have been published for the 12 months to end March 2017:-

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables. Table 3b of the dataset “Local authority waste generation from April 2000 to March 2017 England and regions and Local authority data April 2016 to March 2017”.

In this period, 11.3 million tonnes of all waste collected by local authorities in England was sent for recycling. This amounts to 42.9% of total local authority collected waste. This includes waste recycled from residual waste streams, but excludes waste that was rejected and subsequently sent for incineration or landfill.

The amount of local authority waste not sent for recycling that was originally collected for this purpose, is estimated to have been around 470 thousand tonnes in 2016/17 in England. This amounts to 1.8% of total local authority collected waste.

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