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== Macro Tonnage ==

The most recent information published by [[DEFRA]] <ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-waste-and-resource-statistics-2018-edition Digest of Waste Resources 2018] reporting data from 2016</ref> <ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data UK Statistics on Waste 2019] updating some of the 2018 Digest with 2017 data</ref>is summarized in the pie chart below, with 1,528,527 tonnes of plastic wastes generated in the UK in 2016 as part of the broader tonnage reported in [[UK Waste Tonnage]]:

~~[[File:Plastic Waste Pie Chart.png~~|~~frame~~|~~center~~|Plastic Wastes - ~~Tonnage Reported as Generated by DEFRA 2016]]~~

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! colspan="2"| Plastic Wastes

|-

| colspan="2"|{{Graph:MaterialPie|Width=200|Height=200|size=200|offset=175|val1=137126|val2=766|val3=373114|val4=67445|val5=822233|val6=127842}}

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! colspan="2"|Data Table

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| Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF)

| style="text-align:right;"| 138,126

|-

| Mining and Quarrying (MQ)

| style="text-align:right;"| 766

|-

| Industrial (Ind)

| style="text-align:right;" | 373,144

|-

| Construction (Con)

| style="text-align:right;" | 67,445

|-

| Commercial (Com)

| style="text-align:right;" | 822,233

|-

| Household (HH)

| style="text-align:right;" | 127,842

|}

The macro numbers above under report the total plastics put into the market as the macro numbers exclude tonnage in mixed categories. The macro numbers also do not breakdown the component elements of plastic, but the following headers in the page are the materials as handled by local authorities and as reported through [[WasteDataFlow]].

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 == Macro Tonnage ==
 The most recent information published by [[DEFRA]] <ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/digest-of-waste-and-resource-statistics-2018-edition Digest of Waste Resources 2018] reporting data from 2016</ref> <ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data UK Statistics on Waste 2019] updating some of the 2018 Digest with 2017 data</ref>is summarized in the pie chart below, with 1,528,527 tonnes of plastic wastes generated in the UK in 2016 as part of the broader tonnage reported in [[UK Waste Tonnage]]:
-[[File:Plastic Waste Pie Chart.png|frame|center|Plastic Wastes - Tonnage Reported as Generated by DEFRA 2016]]
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! colspan="2"| Plastic Wastes
+|-
+| colspan="2"|{{Graph:MaterialPie|Width=200|Height=200|size=200|offset=175|val1=137126|val2=766|val3=373114|val4=67445|val5=822233|val6=127842}}
+|-
+! colspan="2"|Data Table
+|-
+| Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF)
+| style="text-align:right;"| 138,126
+|-
+| Mining and Quarrying (MQ)
+| style="text-align:right;"| 766
+|-
+| Industrial (Ind)
+| style="text-align:right;" | 373,144
+|-
+| Construction (Con)
+| style="text-align:right;" | 67,445
+|-
+| Commercial (Com)
+| style="text-align:right;" | 822,233
+|-
+| Household (HH)
+| style="text-align:right;" | 127,842
+|}
 The macro numbers above under report the total plastics put into the market as the macro numbers exclude tonnage in mixed categories. The macro numbers also do not breakdown the component elements of plastic, but the following headers in the page are the materials as handled by local authorities and as reported through [[WasteDataFlow]].