Recycling has increased 1.8 percentage points in the waste authority for Portsmouth

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Back in 2015 Portsmouth City Council recycled 26% of its waste, landfilled 6.5%, and incinerated 67.4%.

By 2023 incineration had decreased by 1.8 percentage points to 65.7%.

Recycling increased over the same period by 1.8 percentage points to 27.8%. In 2023 3.7% of waste was landfilled.

There are currently 6 years left on a contract with Veolia. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “An income share agreement (50/50) for electricity produced for the National Grid between the Authority and Veolia applies from 2024.”

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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Visualised: how waste processing changed between 2014/15 and 2022/23