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In the UK, all businesses and other organisations have a legal duty of care over the waste they generate. This legal responsibility was introduced in the groundbreaking Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1990 [6] and was recently amended by the Environment Act (EA) 2021 [7] to provide more clarity in definitions and expand responsibilities.
But Defra figures also show that the UK’s recycling rate from households has dropped to the lowest level since comparable data began in 2015.
Commercial and industrial (C&I) waste makes up a large proportion of the UK's waste. According to DEFRA, 48 million tonnes of C&I waste was generated in England in 2009, down from 67.9 million tonnes 6 years earlier. Furthermore, 52% of C&I waste was reused or recycled, compared to just 42% in 2002/03.
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.
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
letsrecycle.com is a UK-based website reporting news and information related to the waste management and recycling industries. [1] The website produces daily news and information and is one of the key providers of news in the UK waste industry .
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.