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 amount of land-filled waste that was recyclable in each of the last 10 years.

This data is not available. The way that the data is reported for the particular waste categories does not make it readily possible to make reliable estimates for the amount of recyclable waste that was sent to landfill. The main data on waste that goes to landfill is from the permitted site returns that are submitted to the Environment Agency. A significant proportion (around 91 per cent in 2018) of the municipal waste sent to landfill was composed of two mixed waste categories: mixed municipal waste and sorting residues from mechanical treatment of waste.