Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered on 5th September 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the proportion of waste from Medway which ended up in landfill in each of the last five years.
The table below shows the proportion of waste from Medway Borough Council which was sent to landfill in each of the last five years.
Year | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Proportion of waste sent to landfill | 16.2%
| 16.5% | 13.8% | 11.3% | 10.5% |
The statistics are published annually by Defra and are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results.
They will be updated with figures for 2017/18 before the end of the year.
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