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Departmental Waste

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken to reduce the volume of waste produced by it and sent to landfill in each of the last two years. (215920)

The Department has worked hard, with its contractors, to reduce the amount of waste it produces. Between 2004-05 and 2006-07 our overall waste arisings reduced by some 60 per cent. from 996 tonnes to 393 tonnes.

All our general waste is removed from site and sent to a materials recycling facility, where it is segregated into different waste streams. This system has contributed to a very high recycling rate, achieving 90 per cent. in 2006-07.

Information for 2007-08 is not currently available.