Recycling has increased 4.4 percentage points in the waste authority for Sheffield

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Back in 2015 Sheffield City Council recycled 29.5% of its waste, landfilled 6.8%, and incinerated 63.6%.

By 2023 incineration had increased by 1.7 percentage points to 65.3%.

Recycling increased over the same period by 4.4 percentage points to 33.9%. In 2023 0.8% of waste was landfilled.

There are currently 14 years left on a contract with Veolia. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “There is a fixed income share arrangement, but we are not able to provide the specific details of this as we are not able to determine the element of this value that is directly attributed to the Energy Recovery Process as the value is part of the wider integrated waste contract and is not specific to the energy recovery facilities operation.”

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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The interactive table below shows how waste has been dealt with in authorities in the region between 2014/15 and 2022/23.

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