Recycling has decreased 5.2 percentage points in the waste authority for Leeds

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Back in 2015 Leeds City Council MBC recycled 41.1% of its waste, landfilled 46%, and incinerated 12.9%.

By 2023 incineration had increased by 49.3 percentage points to 62.2%.

Recycling decreased over the same period by 5.2 percentage points to 36%. In 2023 0.7% of waste was landfilled.

There are currently 17 years left on a contract with Veolia. The total contract value is £465.3m. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “The PFI contract does have sharing mechanisms for energy, third party waste and recyclate income, above the base case. The recycling contracts also have sharing mechanisms for income from recyclates but not from energy generation.”

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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