What happened to your household waste and recycling last year
Have you thought about what happens to your household waste and recycling? The following page details how the council and its contractors managed your household waste and recycling during the 2023-2024 financial year.
Materials collected for recycling from Wiltshire residents are sent to various different re-processors to be turned into new products or raw materials to go back into the manufacturing process.
Recycling, reuse and composting
Of the 212,344 tonnes of household waste collected for recycling, reuse or composting by Wiltshire Council, 99.5% was managed within Europe (with 88% managed in the UK).
Our recycling rate increased compared to the previous financial year (2022-2023) from 40% to 43.7% (figures subject to external validation).
The buttons below give a breakdown of what happened to your recycling, reuse and compostable items.
Treatment, reclamation, composting and landfill
We work hard to reduce the amount of waste that is sent to landfill. Recycling is not the only way we do this. In addition to recycling, in the financial year 2023 to 2024, we diverted 41.4% of Wiltshire's waste from landfill using waste treatment facilities which can reclaim some energy from waste.
We have a contract to send 60,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste to Northacre Resource Recovery Centre (opens new window) in Westbury, Wiltshire. They convert this waste into a fuel for use in Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities using Mechanical and Biological Processes (MBT). Residues from this process are landfilled.
We have a contract to send 50,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste to the Lakeside Energy from Waste (EfW) (opens new window) facility in Slough which converts the waste into energy. No waste from this process is landfilled.
The buttons below give a breakdown of what happened to your household waste.
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