Domestic Waste
(asked on 2nd December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of household waste was (1) recycled, (2) reused, (3) sent to landfill, and (4) used as resource in 'Energy from Waste', in each of the past 3 years.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Figures for England have been taken from published statistics and also calculated from data held in the WasteDataFlow web portal. The information is provided in the table below:
Table 1: Percentage of household waste by main disposal route for the past 3 years in England
Percentage of Household waste sent for Reuse, Recycling or Composting | Percentage of Household Waste sent to Landfill | Percentage of Household Waste sent for Energy Recovery | |
2020/21 | 42.3% | 7.7% | 47.9% |
2021/22 | 42.5% | 8.1% | 47.4% |
2022/23 | 41.7% | 7.3% | 48.9% |
Source: WasteDataFlow
The percentages above will not sum to 100% as some household waste is sent to ‘Other' treatments or to non-energy from waste (EFW) incineration. Other treatment refers to input to mechanical biological treatment (MBT), residual material recovery facilities (MRFs), refuse-derived fuel (RDF) and other plants prior to treatment and disposal.
A separate figure for reuse is not available. Household waste sent for energy recovery does not include waste sent for non EfW incineration.