{"id":22659,"date":"2025-07-25T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22659\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:43:13","slug":"uk-recycling-rate-rises-to-44-6-as-waste-to-landfill-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22659\/","title":{"rendered":"UK recycling rate rises to 44.6% as waste to landfill falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UK\u2019s provisional recycling rate for waste from households (WfH), including Incinerator Bottom Ash metal (IBAm), reached 44.6% in 2023, up from 44.1% in 2022, according to new government statistics.<\/p>\n

Recycling rates increased across all UK nations in 2023. England recorded a provisional rate of 44.0%, while Wales remained the highest-performing nation at 57.0%. Northern Ireland achieved 50.2%, and Scotland 42.1%.<\/p>\n

The amount of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) sent to landfill across the UK fell from 6.3 million tonnes in 2022 to 5.3 million tonnes in 2023, continuing a downward trend in landfill reliance.<\/p>\n

Provisional figures for 2024 indicate that between 64.1% and 75.2% of UK packaging waste was recycled.<\/p>\n

Data on commercial and industrial (C&I) waste shows that the UK generated an estimated 40.4 million tonnes in 2020, with England accounting for 33.7 million tonnes (83%). For 2023, England\u2019s C&I waste generation is estimated at around 32.6 million tonnes.<\/p>\n

Construction and demolition (C&D) waste continues to form a significant share of the UK\u2019s waste stream. In 2020, an estimated 59.4 million tonnes of non-hazardous C&D waste was generated, with 55.0 million tonnes recovered. England generated 53.9 million tonnes of this total, recovering 50.3 million tonnes. By 2022, England\u2019s non-hazardous C&D waste rose to 63.0 million tonnes, with 59.4 million tonnes recovered.<\/p>\n

Overall, the UK generated 191.2 million tonnes of total waste in 2020, with England responsible for 85% of this figure (162.8 million tonnes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The UK\u2019s provisional recycling rate for waste from households (WfH), including Incinerator Bottom Ash metal (IBAm), reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}