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Incinerators and Recycling

Commons · Question 99704 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 18 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the change in the tonnage of (a) recycled and (b) incinerated waste between 2019 and 2024.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 18 Dec 2025

Corrected 18 Dec 2025 by Mary Creagh

The most comprehensive waste treatment data Defra hold for the period from 2019 to 2024 cover the management of local authority collected waste in England for the financial years 2018/19 to 2023/24. The data are available in the Local authority collected...