Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 23 July 2021.
Rachael Maskell
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the recycling rate has been for (a) England and (b) York in each of the last five years.
Rebecca Pow
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The national recycling rate for England and the local authority recycling rate for York City Council are shown below.
The recycling rate for England is on a “waste from household” basis. Local authority recycling rates are not available on this basis so the “Household” recycling rate for York has been shown below.
Recycling rates
England (Waste from households) | York City Council (Household waste) | |
2015-16 | 44.4% | 42.8% |
2016-17 | 45.1% | 42.5% |
2017-18 | 44.8% | 44.9% |
2018-19 | 45.1% | 43.6% |
2019-20 | 45.5% | 48.4% |
Notes i) Figures relate to the percentage of waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting, anaerobic digestion. ii) “Waste from households” is a harmonised measure used for reporting headline England and UK recycling rates. It is narrower in scope than “Household waste” excluding waste types not considered to have come directly from households such as street bins, street sweepings, parks and grounds.
More detail on the difference between these two measures can be found in the Local authority waste statistics publications.
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