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Recycling

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average rejection rate of recycled materials at material recycling facilities was in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many tonnes of material sent for recycling were disposed of in a non-recycled manner in the latest year for which figures are available. (218900)

Based on local authority responses to WasteDataFlow during 2006-07, the average reject rate reported by local authorities in England for collected municipal recyclate waste being sent to a material recycling facility was 7 per cent. With regard to material sent for recycling, but disposed of in a non-recycled manner, tonnages are not available as local authorities only have a duty to report recycling rejects up to the gate of the reprocessor, at which point it is deemed to be sent for recycling.