Packaging: Waste
(asked on 6th December 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, what estimate she has made of the proportion of packaging waste which will be recycled or recovered in each of the next three years.
This question was answered on 12th December 2016
The proportion of packaging waste that was recycled or recovered in each year since 2010 was:
% | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
% recycled | 60.7 | 60.8 | 61.4 | 64.6 | 59.2 | 59.1 |
% recovered | 67.3 | 67.1 | 69.1 | 72.7 | 64.1 | 65.1 |
The proportion of packaging waste that will be recycled or recovered in each of the next three years is:
% | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
% recycled | 62 | 58-60 | 58-62 |
% recovered | 67 | 63-65 | 63-67 |