Recycling collected, rejected and processed data
Case reference EIR2025/01102
Received 13 December 2025
Published 20 January 2026
Request
As a freedom of information request, please provide, for each financial year from 2018-19 to the most recent available at the point of production, the following:
1) a - tonnes of household recycling collected b - tonnes of collected household recycling rejected
c) - tonnes of collected household recycling rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
2) a - tonnes of non-household recycling collected b - tonnes of non-household recycling rejected
c) - tonnes of non-household material rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
3) a - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public b - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected c - tonnes of household material taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
4) a - tonnage or percentage of material recycled within the UK b - tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed (such as recycled or incinerated) c - if available, please provide the tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed and destination country.
Response
Please provide, for each financial year from 2018/19 to the most recent available at the point of production, the following:
1)a tonnes of household recycling collected b – tonnes of collected household recycling rejected. C) tonnes of collected household recycling rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy from-waste/incineration, landfill.
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|
18/19 |
19/20 |
20/21 |
21/22 |
22/23 |
23/24 |
24/25 |
|
Tonnes of household recycled collected |
18409 |
19618 |
21956 |
21079 |
18724 |
20400 |
20258 |
|
Tonnes of household recycling rejected |
837.96 |
627.65 |
665.54 |
534.36 |
868.87 |
871.42 |
913.45 |
|
Tonnes of household recycling rejected, split by how it was then reprocessed |
837.96 rejected to Energy Recovery |
627.65 rejected to Energy Recovery |
665.54 rejected to Energy Recovery |
83.44 rejected to Energy Recovery 99.94 rejected to landfill 356.12 rejected to RDF autoclave |
0.83 rejected to Energy Recovery
868.04 (rejected to RDF autoclave)
|
871.42 (rejected to RDF autoclave |
913.45 (rejected to RDF autoclave) |
2)a – tonnes of non-household recycling collected b – tonnes of non-household recycling rejected c – tonnes of non-household materials rejected (split by how then processed).
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|
18/19 |
19/20 |
20/21 |
21/22 |
22/23 |
23/24 |
24/25 |
|
tonnes of non-household recycling collected |
67.52 |
83.07 |
35.45 |
38.09 |
113.56 |
89.50 |
72.45 |
|
tonnes of non-household recycling rejected |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
|
tonnes of non-household materials rejected (split by how then processed). |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
3) a - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public b - tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected c - tonnes of household material taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
Documents
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