Landfill: South East

(asked on 30th November 2017) - 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 proportion of waste collections in (a) Kent, (b) Surrey, (c) East Sussex, (d) West Sussex and (e) Hampshire went to landfill in 2015-16.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 5th December 2017

Information on the collection and management of all local authority waste for England, including figures for individual local authorities, are published on an annual basis. Latest published figures are for 2015/16 and are given below.

Local authority

Proportion of all local authority waste sent to landfill in 2015/16 (per cent)

Kent County Council

6.5

Surrey County Council

6.0

East Sussex County Council

5.3

West Sussex County Council

36.6

Hampshire County Council

6.1

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