{"id":301271,"date":"2026-02-25T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:07:06","slug":"food-waste-is-a-heinous-crime-says-chef-intercepting-tonnes-destined-for-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301271\/","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":301272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-301271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}