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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department’s statistics entitled Local authority collected waste management - annual results 2021/22, published 24 March 2023, what percentage of rubbish sent to be recycled was rejected due to unrecyclable plastic materials in the East of England in 2021-2022.

Defra do not hold the data to calculate the percentage of unrecyclable plastic material rejected from the waste material collected for recycling in England. Overall rejection tonnages for Household waste collected by Local authority and region can be found in the published datasets: ENV18 - Local authority collected waste: annual results tables 2021/22 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).