Recycling
(asked on 24th October 2016) - 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 recycled in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
Waste data is reported by all local authorities in England and the UK through WasteDataFlow. The data in the following table is taken from WasteDataFlow. The table shows the percentage of all local authority collected waste which was sent for recycling from 2010/11 to 2014/15 for St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council and Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. Data is not reported on the basis of St Helens North constituency.
Percentage of all local authority waste recycled/composted (*) | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
St Helens MBC | 31.3% | 31.7% | 29.3% | 36.8% | 40.6% |
Merseyside WDA (MBC) | 36.5% | 36.9% | 36.2% | 39.7% | 41.9% |
UK | 40.2% | 42.5% | 42.1% | 43.2% | 43.7% |
(*) Includes reuse |
The data is published through the annual results for local authority collected waste and is available on GOV.UK at: www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env18-local-authority-collected-waste-annual-results-tables
It should be noted that the official UK recycling measure which is used to report against the Waste Framework Directive is the narrower ‘waste from households’ recycling rate. This is reported on a calendar year basis. UK recycling rates for this measure are given in the table below. This information is not available for individual local authorities.
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
UK Waste from household recycling rate | 40.4% | 42.9% | 43.9% | 44.1% | 44.9% |
The data is published in the UK Waste Statistics publication which is available on GOV.UK at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data.