Landfill
(asked on 13th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much waste was land-filled in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 26th February 2020
The total tonnage of waste sent for landfill in the UK is available for alternate years only. The most recent data available is for 2016 and goes back to 2010:
| Thousand tonnes |
Year | Total waste sent for landfill (UK) |
2010 | 50,707 |
2012 | 48,567 |
2014 | 48,178 |
2016 | 52,271 |
Full datasets are available on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env23-uk-waste-data-and-management. The next update, with 2018 figures, will be published in March 2020.