Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the recycling rates in Nottinghamshire in each year since 2015.
Defra has calculated the Nottinghamshire District and Borough Councils' yearly percentage of household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting since 2015. They are as follows:
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Ashfield District Council | 32.5% | 31.8% | 41.0% | 40.8% |
Bassetlaw District Council | 19.2% | 20.1% | 21.1% | 24.8% |
Broxtowe Borough Council | 39.0% | 38.5% | 39.9% | 38.5% |
Gedling Borough Council | 36.2% | 35.6% | 36.7% | 35.2% |
Mansfield District Council | 35.8% | 34.5% | 34.6% | 32.6% |
Newark and Sherwood District Council | 27.0% | 30.3% | 31.9% | 31.9% |
Rushcliffe Borough Council | 49.0% | 49.0% | 50.4% | 50.2% |
Nottinghamshire County Council | 42.8% | 42.5% | 44.2% | 43.7% |