Recycling
(asked on 3rd June 2019) - 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 estimate he has made of the volume of recyclable material sent abroad for recycling in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 10th June 2019
The Environment Agency (EA) estimates that 10million tonnes of green list (non-hazardous) waste such as uncontaminated waste paper or plastic is exported each year for recycling.
The quantity of notified (hazardous) waste exported in 2016 for recycling was 2.8m tonnes. In 2017 it was 4.2million tonnes and in 2018 it was 4.2million tonnes.