Written question asked by Barry Sheerman (Labour) on Monday, 1 February 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 3 February 2016. It was answered by Rory Stewart (Conservative) on Friday, 5 February 2016 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Landfill

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the volume of (a) office equipment and (b) printer cartridges sent to landfill sites in the UK in each of the last three years.

Answer

Neither Defra nor the Environment Agency hold any specific data on waste office equipment. The data on waste tonnages accepted in disposal and recovery facilities is based on standard European Waste Classification (EWC) codes. These codes do not map directly to waste office equipment. Therefore, the data provided is based on the most relevant codes. These relate to âwastes from electrical and electronic equipmentâ, âseparately collected fractions from municipal wastesâ for discarded electrical equipment and âwastes from the manufacture, formulation, supply and use of printing inksâ. Figures for discarded equipment will not include office equipment only.

Waste electrical and electronic equipment and waste printer cartridges accepted at landfill sites in England (tonnes):

	2012	2013	2014
Discarded waste electrical & electronic equipment*	101.03	99.64	134.92
Waste printer cartridges**	134.15	159.30	136.57

* based on EWC code 160213.160214, 200135, 200136.

** based on EWC code 080317, 08318.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 25218
Session: 2015-16
Subjects: Computers Landfill Printing machinery
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

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