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Domestic Waste: Recycling

Commons · Question 23651 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 23 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department holds data produced by WRAP on the number of containers required for waste and recycling collections by each waste collection authority.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 23 Jan 2025

No, Defra does not hold this data. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) collect local authority-reported data on dry recyclable and organic waste stream collection models, which is publicly available on WRAP’s local authority data portal.