Recycling

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - 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 recent estimate he has made of the capacity of the UK’s waste recycling system.


Answered by
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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 25th January 2018

The latest figures available for England in 2016 show that there were 2,782 recycling treatment facilities permitted managing 72.4 million tonnes of waste. There were also 2,420 metal recovery facilities managing 13.8 million tonnes of waste.

The Government has signalled clear ambitions for resources efficiency in the Clean Growth Strategy, Industrial Strategy and 25 Year Environment Plan, which set out an ambition for zero avoidable waste by 2050. We are committed to supporting comprehensive and frequent waste and recycling collections which protect local amenity and ensure that products are recycled as much as possible. The Government is developing a new strategy on resources and waste to be published later this year.

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