Recycling has decreased 0.2 percentage points in the waste authority for City of Edinburgh

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Back in 2014 City of Edinburgh recycled 37.2% of its waste, landfilled 56.9%, and incinerated 2.5%.

By 2022 incineration had increased by 41.7 percentage points to 44.2%.

Recycling decreased over the same period by 0.2 percentage points to 37%. In 2022 2.8% of waste was landfilled.

There are currently 20 years left on a contract with FCC. The total contract value is £356.452m. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “There is a benefit sharing arrangement with a Third-Party Income (TPI) sharing mechanism between FCC and the City of Edinburgh Council and Midlothian Council.”

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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