Recycling has decreased 12.8 percentage points in the waste authority for Bradford

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Back in 2015 Bradford City MDC (MBC) recycled 51.2% of its waste, landfilled 19.2%, and incinerated 29.6%.

By 2023 incineration had increased by 31.1 percentage points to 60.7%.

Recycling decreased over the same period by 12.8 percentage points to 38.4%. In 2023 0.8% of waste was landfilled.

There are currently 8 years left on a contract with Associated Waste Management Limited. The total contract value is £18m. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “Yes, gainshare based on achieving thresholds in relation to energy production and sale of recyclable materials removed during processing.”

Notes:

1. Figures do not always add up to 100% as there is a fourth ‘other’ category.
2. In some cases figures total over 100% as it may include waste from the previous year.
3. Rounding may also lead to some percentage changes being slightly higher or lower than the difference between the two figures: in this situation please check the full spreadsheet for more detailed figures.
4. Some annual returns in Scotland are incomplete comparing 2014 and 2022. This is because, at some authorities, data on incineration was not collected back in 2014. Other authorities have also not submitted an annual return for 2022 in the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) data.

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Visualised: how waste processing changed between 2014/15 and 2022/23