Recycling has decreased 3.9 percentage points in the waste authority for Milton Keynes
Strictly embargoed 0:00 GMT, Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Back in 2015 Milton Keynes Council recycled 52.1% of its waste, landfilled 21.4%, and incinerated 26.4%.
By 2023 incineration had decreased by 3.2 percentage points to 23.2%.
Recycling decreased over the same period by 3.9 percentage points to 48.3%. In 2023 0.6% of waste was landfilled.
There are currently 9 years left on a contract with Thalia. The total contract value is £162.5m. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “The income from the sale of electricity, recyclate and 3rd party waste offsets the council’s disposal cost. The contract includes a 3rd party income mechanism.”
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
