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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate her Department has made of the annual mass of residual waste per head of population in England (a) sent to landfill, (b) put through incineration, and (c) used in energy recovery (i) in the UK and (ii) overseas.

We do not publish data relating to the mass of residual waste on a per head of population basis. However, as part of our ‘Local authority collected waste management - annual results’ we do publish data on ‘residual household waste per household’, on a kilogram per household figure and ‘waste from household’ on a kilogram per person figure: (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables-202122). Furthermore, in the Output Indicator framework for the 25 year Environment Plan (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/25-year-environment-plan-progress-reports), the J4 Indicator presents total tonnages of residual waste (excluding major mineral wastes) sent to landfill and put through incineration.