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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of plastic waste which was (a) incinerated and (b) sent to landfill in the last three years for which figures are available.

We do not hold detailed information on the fate of total plastics waste.

WRAP publishes data which shows that the main source of plastic waste arisings in the UK is packaging which accounted for around 60% of total plastics arisings in 2014. The current recycling rate for UK plastic packaging is around 40%.

WRAP’s data is available online via the following link: http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Plastics_Market_Situation_Report.pdf