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1a Financial question: what are your Authority’s financial expenditure
outturns (revenue, not capital) for the years 2023/24 and 2024/25 for your recycling and waste
service? What revenue budget for your recycling and waste service has your Authority set for 2025/26
1b Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your
Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26? To which of your Authority’s services is this
funding allocated? (Please specify the service, or services, this funding is allocated to).
2 For Waste Collection Authorities – Recycling services question: please indicate if your
Authority already collects the complete range of these ‘dry-recyclable’ items from households; or the
intended quarter period by which you will have collections for the complete range of these ‘dry’ items from households in place:
• Glass bottles and jars used as packaging;
• Steel and aluminium tin cans, aerosols, foils, food trays, jar & bottle lids, and aluminium tubes,
bottles and jars;
• Plastics PET, PP, LDPE and HDPE bottles, pots, tubs, trays and tubes.
• Plastic polyolefin film packaging and plastic bags (which contain a minimum of 90% by weight of
mono-polyethylene, mono-polypropylene, or both).
• All paper and card except the following …
o (a)fibre-based composite where the non-paper fibre content is more than 15% by weight,
o (b)fibre-based composite which has layers of plastic on both sides (double-sided lamination),
o (c)fibre-based composite cups,
o (d)paper and card to which glitter has been adhered,
o (e)paper and card to which foil has been adhered, where the non-paper fibre content is more than
15% by weight,
o (f)greaseproof, siliconised or waxed paper,
o (g)stickers,
o (h)padded polyethylene lined envelopes,
o (i)paperback and hardback books,
o (j)wallpaper.
3 targets/ambitions: please indicate what authority-approved recycling
targets/ambitions you have in place for, firstly, all recycling (dry-recycling and organics) and, secondly,
for dry-recycling (i.e. the collective target for the range of packaging & other recyclable materials you
collects and/or dispose of) for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36. Or if there are no authority targets for the specific years below, please indicate what recycling performance targets or
ambitions your Authority has in place, if any.