Landfill
(asked on 1st October 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 estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the UK's waste that has gone to landfill in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Statistics for the amount of UK waste sent to landfill are calculated by Defra at two-yearly intervals. The latest figures that are available are for 2018 and published by Eurostat – see below.
UK Waste sent to Landfill - Thousand tonnes unless otherwise indicated | |||
Calendar Year | Landfill (Waste deposited into or onto Land) | Total waste sent to final treatment | Landfill as a Percentage of Total waste treated |
2014 | 48,178 | 205,436 | 23.5% |
2016 | 52,271 | 214,287 | 24.4% |
2018 | 50,789 | 214,653 | 23.7% |
Source; Eurostat:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/env_wastrt/default/table?lang=en
By implementing measures in our Resources and Waste Strategy the Government will continue to reduce waste to landfill.