Refuse Waste - percentage figures
Case reference FOI2019/00652
Published 22 July 2019
Request
On your website the figure of 93% of all refuse waste collected in Surrey in the 2016-2017 was diverted from landfill and used for energy from waste. Are the figures for 2017-18 available please? Also do you have a split between residential and business for these figures.
Response
In 2017/18 we had 90.972% of all refuse waste used for energy from waste (EFW) and 9.028% sent to landfill. This was slightly higher than we'd normally expect as there was a period where several EFW plants were taken offline at the same time for periodic maintenance, meaning that there was not enough EFW capacity available locally for the waste produced. The split is the same for residential and business collections as the material is transported mixed to the EFW and landfill sites.
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