Textiles: Waste Disposal Miss McIntosh To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what statistics his Department holds on the amount of textile waste (a) recycled and (b) sent to landfill in each of the last five years. Jane Kennedy The following table details the amount of textiles waste from household sources recycled in England since 2003-04. This is likely to underestimate household textile recycling, as some will be recorded as co-mingled waste. No reliable data are currently available for textile waste sent to landfill. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Thousand tonnes| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |59 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |71 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-061 |86 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-071 |103 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-081 |113 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Contains a small amount of municipally collected textiles from non-household sources. Source: WasteDataFlow.| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------