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Defra announces recycling rates in England have increased to 42.9 per cent
The Local Authority Provisional Waste Management Statistics for the last three months of 2011 summarise waste collected and managed by local authorities in England in the 12 months from January to December 2011.
The Local Authority Provisional Waste Management Statistics for the last three months of 2011 summarise waste collected and managed by local authorities in England in the 12 months from January to December 2011.
They are based on quarterly data submitted by local authorities to
WasteDataFlow.
The quarterly datasets for national and regional data up to Quarter 3 of
2011/12 are available to download. In this statistics release comparisons are
generally made between the financial year April 2010 to March 2011 (the most
recent final annual results) and the rolling year January to December 2011, to
minimise the effects of seasonal fluctuations.
Headline results
Household recycling has increased - The proportion of household waste sent
for recycling, composting or reuse between January to December 2011 in England
was 42.9 per cent, increasing from 41.5 per cent in the financial year April
2010 and March 2011.
Household waste generation has decreased - The generation of household
waste continued to decrease between the financial year 2010/11 and the rolling
year January to December 2011, with a 0.9 per cent reduction to 23.2 million
tonnes.
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 11 per cent to 10.1 million tonnes between the financial year
2010/11 and the rolling year January to December 2011.
The proportion of local authority collected waste disposed of into landfill
between January to December 2011 was 39 per cent, half of the 78 per cent
disposed in 2001/02. In tonnage terms, more waste was recycled, composted or
reused (10.8 million tonnes) than was landfilled (10.1million tonnes).
There has also been a change in some of the terminology used.
Previously the term 'Municipal Waste' as used in the UK was used in
nationally reported data to refer to waste collected by local authorities. In
fact the definition of municipal waste as described in the Landfill Directive
includes both household waste and that from other sources which is similar in
nature and composition, which will include a significant proportion of waste
generated by businesses and not collected by Local Authorities.
In 2010, negotiations with the EU Commission and consultation with the
waste community redefined national targets and the effects of this change in
relation to the EU Landfill Directive targets.
To remove ambiguity, in the future references to 'municipal waste' will
refer to the new definition. Therefore there is a need to define a new term to
describe the data collected by WasteDataFlow.
The agreed terminology arises from Defra's response to the 2010
consultation on meeting the EU Landfill Diversion Targets in England.
Local Authority Collected Municipal Waste (LACMW)
LACMW refers to the previous 'municipal' element of the waste collected by
local authorities. That is household waste and commercial and industrial waste
where collected by the local authority and which is similar in nature and
composition as required by the Landfill Directive. This is the definition that
will be used for LATS allowances. It excludes C&D waste
Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW)
All waste collected by the local authority. This is a slightly broader
concept than LACMW as it would include both this and non municipal fractions
such as construction and demolition waste. LACW is the definition that will be
used in statistical publications, which previously referred to municipal
waste.
(Source RRF 3rd August 2012)
(Source RRF 3rd August 2012)
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