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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Mr. Bill O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what percentage of packaging waste that is currently reprocessed is generated from (a) industrial waste, (b) retail waste and (c) local authorities; and if he will make a statement. [141178] Mr. Mullin: Businesses that are obligated to recover and recycle specified tonnages of packaging waste under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations are not required to establish whether the packaging waste is derived from the commercial, industrial or household waste stream. however, of the tonnages of packaging waste that flow into the waste stream in the UK, the amounts of each of the main packaging materials that arises as waste in (a) the commercial/industrial and (b) the household (i.e. collected by local authorities) waste stream are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Commercial/ Household waste stream (%) Total tonnage in waste stream industrial stream (%) Paper 87.5 12.5 3,855,000 Glass 16 84 2,200,000 Aluminium 5 95 120,000 Steel 29 71 750,000 Plastics 35 65 1,678,900 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. As targets for recovery and recycling of packaging waste rise, it is likely that greater amounts of packaging waste from the household waste stream will be collected and recovered.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

357 c792W; 141178

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Domestic waste Local government Recycling Packaging Waste disposal Waste Industrial waste

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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