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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2017 to Question 107602, on packaging, how many local authorities provide roadside collection of plastic wrap; how many tonnes of plastic wrap has been recycled in each of the last five years; and what proportion of plastic wrap used in the UK was recycled in each year since 2010.

Seventy nine local authorities in the UK provide kerbside collection of mixed plastic film; 70 of these are in England.

Information is not held on the proportion of plastic film recycled. From information reported to Defra on local authority collected waste in England in 2015/16, a total of around 7,100 tonnes of low density polyethylene (LDPE) was recycled. LDPE includes plastic film as well as carrier bags and bin liners. We are not able to readily extract the totals for previous years.