{"id":498377,"date":"2026-02-25T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:42:07","slug":"food-waste-is-a-heinous-crime-says-chef-intercepting-tonnes-destined-for-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498377\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste is a heinous crime, says chef intercepting tonnes destined for landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How have landfill and recycling rates changed over the years?published at 09:31 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:31 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If we look back to the start of the century, local authorities in England sent 22 million tonnes of waste to landfill in 2000-01. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There\u2019s been a 94% drop since then, with the figure for 2023-24 standing at 1.4 million tonnes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The amount of household waste recycled shot up over that period, at least initially. In 2000-01, just 11% of household waste was recycled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That figure had reached 42% by 2010-11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But things have levelled off since then. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From 2010-11, Defra switched from calculating \u2018household waste\u2019 to \u2018waste from households\u2019 &#8211; a very similar name, but the two figures aren\u2019t directly comparable.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That new recycling metric was also at 42% in 2010-11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023-24, the most recent year available, the figure was at 44%.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defra\u2019s target is to reach 65% in 2035.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How have landfill and recycling rates changed over the years?published at 09:31 GMT 09:31 GMT If we look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-498377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}