Rehman Chishti
Vice-Chair, Conservative Party
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.
Therese Coffey
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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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