FOI002254 FOI Recycling & Waste Services

Short Description
Waste Strategy
Reference number
FOI002254
Date
10/10/2025
Request

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.