Local Authority Municipal Waste Management, July-September 2011

This release covers provisional quarterly results from the Environment Agency’s WasteDataFlow system for July – September 2011 (Quarter 2, 2011-12).

The key points from the latest release are:

• The combined reuse/recycling/composting rate of local authority municipal waste continued to increase to 46 per cent for the 12 months to the end of September 2011, based on provisional data, compared to 41 per cent for the 12 months to the end of September 2010.
• The percentage of local authority municipal waste prepared for reuse, recycled or composted in Wales continued to increase on a quarterly basis reaching a peak of 49 per cent in July to September 2011.
• The total amount of local authority municipal waste generated in Wales continued to decrease, falling to 388 thousand tonnes in July to September 2011. This was 5 per cent lower than for the same quarter in 2010.
• The residual household waste produced per person in Wales has also continued to decrease, falling to 59 kilograms per person in July to September 2011, from 68 kilograms per person in July to September 2010.

Additional quarterly data is available on StatsWales.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5616
E-mail: stats.environment@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

March 2012 (provisional – to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)