Recycling of plastic waste 2019 - 2021
Case reference FOI2022/00193
Published 11 March 2022
Request
I would like to know what percentage of plastic waste your local authority has recycled in the past three years as follows: 2019, 2020, 2021.
I would like it to be broken down as follows:
Q1. The total amount of plastic waste collected for recycling by your authority, measured in tonnes.
Q2. The total amount of collected plastic waste that was then processed in the UK.
Q3. The total amount of collected plastic that was processed outside of the UK.
Q4. The total amount of exported plastic waste broken down by destination country.
Q5. Does the Council have a strategy to recycle plastic waste in the UK instead of exporting?
Response
Q1 - Q4. For questions 1 - 4, please see the attached spreadsheets. Please note that the data is reported by financial year and not calendar year.
Q5. Our waste disposal contractors have long standing arrangements with UK based companies to further sort and process the plastics from our recycling collections.
Documents
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