Recycling has increased 2.2 percentage points in the waste authority for Glasgow City

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Back in 2014 Glasgow City recycled 25.8% of its waste, landfilled 73.4%, and incinerated 0.8%.

By 2022 incineration had increased by 39.7 percentage points to 40.5%.

Recycling increased over the same period by 2.2 percentage points to 28%. In 2022 25% of waste was landfilled.

There are currently 20 years left on a contract with Viridor. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “The contract includes a Third-Party Income sharing mechanism which can allow the Council to share in an upside in revenue from the sale of recyclables and energy production.”

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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