Recycling
(asked on 20th January 2015) - 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 collected has been recycled in each year since 2009-10.
The most relevant recycling data which is regularly measured relates to waste collected and managed by local authorities. This is reported on a quarterly basis and data for England is published each quarter by Defra in statistical releases with accompanying datasets. The latest data for 2013-2014 for England was published in November last year and is available on the GOV.UK website. UK data on the waste from households recycling rate is also available but only up to 2012. This data is also available on the GOV.UK website.
The proportion of ‘waste from households’ recycled in England and the UK, on a calendar year basis from 2010 to 2012 or 2013, is shown in table 1 below:
Table 1 Waste from households recycling rate for England and the UK
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |
England | 41.2% | 43.3% | 44.1% | 44.2% |
UK | 40.3% | 42.9% | 43.9% | not available |
The recycling rate for all local authority collected waste for England for the financial years 2008/9 to 2013/14 is shown in table 2 below:
Table 2 Recycling rate for all local authority collected waste for England
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
38.7% | 40.4% | 42.1% | 42.4% | 42.8% |