Recycling has decreased 5.3 percentage points in the waste authority for Kirklees
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Back in 2015 Kirklees MBC recycled 29.9% of its waste, landfilled 8.1%, and incinerated 62%.
By 2023 incineration had increased by 5.2 percentage points to 67.2%.
Recycling decreased over the same period by 5.3 percentage points to 24.6%. In 2023 9.1% of waste was landfilled.
There is currently 1 year left on a contract with Suez. The FOI response reads: "As incineration is part of the integrated waste disposal contract we are unable to specify the value. The contract start date was 02/04/1998 and is due to end 01/04/2025 after a 2 year extension. The contract was signed as part of a PFI deal."
Notes:
- Figures do not always add up to 100% as there is a fourth ‘other’ category.
- In some cases figures total over 100% as it may include waste from the previous year.
- 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.
- 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.
Visualised: how waste processing changed between 2014/15 and 2022/23
