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FOI request (FOIR-773616874)
Recycling collected, rejected and processed data
Requested Mon 15 December 2025
Responded Tue 13 January 2026As a freedom of information request, please provide, for each financial year from 2018-19 to the most recent available at the point of production, the following:
1) a - tonnes of household recycling collected b - tonnes of collected household recycling rejected
c) - tonnes of collected household recycling rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
2) a - tonnes of non-household recycling collected b - tonnes of non-household recycling rejected
c) - tonnes of non-household material rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
3) a - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public b - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected c - tonnes of household material taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
4) a - tonnage or percentage of material recycled within the UK b - tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed (such as recycled or incinerated) c - if available, please provide the tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed and destination country.
If tonnes are not available, please provide percentages or other available measure. If the whole period requested is not available, please instead provide data from the earliest point available till the most recent at the point of production. If possible, please provide this data as a csv file.
Response
Please find attached as requested a breakdown of the information required. The first file is an Excel file and the other three are CSVs for each of the pages in the Excel file.
Additional information is available through the WasteDataFlow Website at WasteDataFlow Waste Management and if you are not already registered you can register here.
There is also further information available on the WRAP LA Portal website for Local Authorities.
For English local authorities, past years' data can be downloaded from data.gov.uk.
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