Recycling
(asked on 16th January 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, what the recycling rates were in (a) the City of York, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The ‘household waste’ recycling measure is available for individual local authorities and regions on a financial year basis.
For the UK, the official harmonised recycling measure is the ‘waste from households’ recycling rate. Official reporting is on a calendar year basis. The measures are similar but not the same and are not directly comparable. ‘Waste from households’ is slightly narrower in the scope of waste it includes than ‘household waste’, and counts different materials towards recycling. A specific refinement to the ‘waste from households’ recycling rate introduced in 2017/18 was the inclusion of metal recovered and recycled from waste which has been through incineration (IBA metal).
The ‘household waste’ recycling rate for York City Council, the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the UK official ‘waste from household’ recycling rates are summarised in the table below.
Recycling Rates | |||||
| York City Council | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK (excl. IBAm) | UK (incl. IBAm) |
‘Household Waste’ | ‘Waste from Households’ | ||||
2010-11 | 45.1% | 39.5% | 2010 | 40.4% | - |
2011-12 | 46.4% | 41.9% | 2011 | 42.9% | - |
2012-13 | 46.0% | 43.3% | 2012 | 43.9% | - |
2013-14 | 43.6% | 43.9% | 2013 | 44.1% | - |
2014-15 | 42.5% | 43.6% | 2014 | 44.9% | - |
2015-16 | 42.8% | 42.2% | 2015 | 44.2% | 44.6% |
2016-17 | 42.5% | 42.9% | 2016 | 44.7% | 45.2% |
2017-18 | 44.9% | 42.4% | 2017 | 45.0% | 45.7% |
2018-19 | 43.6% | 42.9% | 2018 | - | - |