Waste Facilities in UK

Overview

DEFRA publish an annual digest of waste statistics and this page and the broader summary page on UK Waste Tonnage. The headline tonnages for 2016 for the UK (from a total of 214.3 million tonnes) were:

• Recycling and Recovery 104 million tonnes (48.5%)
• Landfill 52.3 million tonnes (24.4%)
• Energy Recovery Facility 7.3 million tonnes (3.4% but the fastest growing)

Split by Type of Treatment Method

The split by treatment method is heavily distorted by Soil and Mineral Waste contributing significantly to Backfilling and Landfill but also the Recycling and other Recovery (where some categories of application of this material to land are classified as Recovery). The majority of Household and simialr wastes were treated at an Energy Recovery Facility.

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Final Treatment Methods for Waste, UK, 2016

Split by Number of Permitted Facility

DEFRA consolidate information from each of the four UK environment agencies authorized by an Environmental Permit or similar. The data with : in the table is not available, Energy Recovery has R1 status, and excludes sites exempt from requiring an Environmental Permit and intermediate treatment (which includes most Anaerobic Digestion).

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Number and Capacity of Permitted Final Treatment Facilities, UK and England, 2014-2016

Links to other Pages

WikiWaste has a number of pages dedicated to summarizing specific Treatment and Disposal facilities, grouped broadly at present into:

• Residual Waste EFW
• Biomass Waste EFW (including Waste Wood EFW, Sewage Sludge EFW and Agricultural Waste EFW)
• Anaerobic Digestion Sites
• Material Recovery Facility Sites (handling Dry Mixed Recyclables)
• Mechanical Biological Treatment Sites