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In Scotland in 1993, 14 million tons of waste was produced. 100,000 tons was toxic waste and 260,000 tons was controlled waste from other parts of Britain and abroad. 45% of the special waste was in liquid form and 18% was asbestos - radioactive waste was not included. Of the controlled waste, 48% came from the demolition of buildings, 22% from ...
The industrial and service sectors generate roughly equal amounts of waste with similar recycling rates, even though the service sector is economically larger. [13] The reporting of C&I waste statistics has not always met the European Commission's standards, with local councils using different methodologies for their statistics. There has also ...
It had the following waste management objectives: provide widespread segregated kerbside waste collections across Scotland (to over 90% of households by 2020); aim to stop growth in the amount of municipal waste produced by 2010; achieve 25% recycling and composting of municipal waste by 2006, and 55% by 2020(35% recycling and 20% composting);
Here are some of the key statistics in the 2024 UK Food Security Report, which has been published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The UK in 2023 sourced 58% of its ...
The following table gives the percentages of municipal waste that is recycled, incinerated, incinerated to produce energy and landfilled. [ 1 ] Recycling rates by country 2019
Compendium of UK Statistics - Environment. This page lists the issues that the United Kingdom currently has that are related to the environment, such as pollution and contamination. In 2015, it was reported that for the past decade, the state of the environment in London had significantly deteriorated both in urban and rural areas.
The report, written by Greenlight Commercial & Consulting, identified several key issues, including insufficient staff, a lack of expertise, and weak project management.
The aim was to cut UK household food waste by 155,000 tonnes (2.5% of total waste) before the end of 2010 by helping UK households prevent food going to waste. [86] Food charities, the most widely known being FareShare, arrange the distribution of surplus food from the food industry among disadvantaged people in the community.