The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have released statistics of the waste collected and managed by local authorities in England.
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These provisional results are for the 12 months from January 2010 to December 2010, and are based on quarterly data submitted by local authorities to WasteDataFlow.
In this statistics release comparisons are made between the financial year April 2009 to March 2010 and the 12 month period January 2010 to December 2010, to minimise the effects of seasonal fluctuations.
The headline results are:
- Household recycling has increased The proportion of household waste sent for recycling, composting or reuse between January 2010 and December 2010 in England was 40.8 per cent, increasing from 39.7 per cent in the financial year April 2009 and March 2010.
- Household waste production has decreased The generation of household waste continued to decrease between the 2009/10 financial year and the year January 2010 to December 2010, with a 2.1 per cent reduction to 23.2 million tonnes.
- Waste generation per person has decreased The weight of household waste generated in the year January 2010 to December 2010 in England, in kilograms per person, was 447 kg per person. Of this total, 182 kg was recycled, composted or reused whilst 265 kg was not.
- Local authority collected waste sent to landfill has declined The tonnage of local authority collected waste being sent to landfill by local authorities has decreased by 7.7 per cent between the financial year 2009/10 and the year January 2010 to December 2010 to 11.5 million tonnes. This continues the decrease of tonnes sent to landfill since 2002/03.
Detailed statistics are available here.
