Recycling: Business Mr. Jeremy Browne To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the level of recycling by businesses in each region in England. Mr. Bradshaw The most recent survey on industrial and commercial waste was carried out in 2002-03 by the Environment Agency. Information was collected from approximately 4,500 businesses and included the type, quantity and form of the waste, as well as the disposal or recovery method used. Data collection was limited to controlled waste and related to England only. The information is available, broken down by region, from the Environment Agency’s website and is shown in the following table. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Thousand tonnes | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Disposal/recovery option| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Region |Land disposal|Land recovery|Re-used/recycled|Thermal|Treatment and transfer|Not recorded|Total per subregion| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Industry |||||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |2,550|152|2,555|145|170|198|5,771| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East of England |857|193|1,461|202|271|272|3,256| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London |482|6|1,027|88|89|210|1,902| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North East |1,293|76|1,671|181|104|76|3,400| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North West |1,867|269|1,669|226|317|154|4,502| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South East |1,310|63|1,257|192|345|414|3,581| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West |802|114|1,174|63|256|179|2,589| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |1,457|74|2,133|135|277|170|4,246| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber |2,574|377|4,588|89|507|204|8,339| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |13,194|1,324|17,536|1,321|2,335|1,877|37,589| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |||||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Commerce |||||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |1,178|33|863|113|67|69|2,322| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East of England |1,389|24|1,248|111|287|248|3,308| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London |2,520|21|2,281|285|215|282|5,604| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North East |589|5|408|121|30|45|1,199| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North West |2,035|90|1,245|133|241|88|3,833| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South East |2,547|59|1,565|223|354|523|5,271| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West |1,549|62|1,051|47|188|70|2,967| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |1,457|6|1,221|99|140|97|3,019| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and the Humber |1,261|20|1,221|64|153|78|2,797| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |14,524|320|11,104|1,196|1,675|1,500|30,320| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |||||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Grand total |27,718|1,645|28,640|2,518|4,011|3,377|67,907| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Source:C and I survey 2002-03: England region and disposal/recovery option.|||||||| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------