Waste from Households -2010-22. UK and country breakdown.
BMW (Biodegradable Municipal Waste) to landfill - 2010-22. UK and country breakdown.
Total waste generated breakdown - UK 2010-20, England 2010-2022. UK and England breakdown but not DAs.
Total waste treated breakdown - UK 2010-20, England 2010-2022. UK and England breakdown but not DAs.
Infrastructure breakdown - UK 2012-20, England 2012-22. UK and England breakdown but not DAs.
C&I (Commercial and Industrial) waste generation - UK 2010-20, England 2010-22. UK and England breakdown but not DAs.
C&D (Construction and Demolition) recovery - UK 2010-20, England 2010-22. UK and England breakdown but not DAs.
Packaging waste recycling and recovery - 2012-2023. UK only.

The files for this dataset can be found in CSV format on Data.Gov.UK (DGUK).

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Published 25 September 2014
Last updated 26 September 2024 + show all updates

26 September 2024
Annual Update.
28 June 2023
Annual publication update for 2023.
11 May 2022
2022 update.
15 July 2021
Annual publication with updated data.
16 June 2021
Paragraph added to details section explaining the putting back of the publication date of this statistical release from 14 July 2021 to 15 July 2021.
16 September 2020
Amendments made to statistical release to meet accessibility requirements.
19 March 2020
Amendment to figure 4.
19 March 2020
Annual update.
7 March 2019
Minor revisions to figures.
14 February 2019
Correction to minor error in the Commercial & Industrial methodology document.
14 February 2019
Annual update.
9 October 2018
Revisions to release and associated datasets.
22 February 2018
Annual update.
20 February 2017
Minor amendments to the data and text slightly revised.
15 December 2016
Previous statistical notice already on web page deleted as per instructions of responsible statistician.
15 December 2016
New UK statistics on waste published.
25 August 2016
To publish 2014 biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) to landfill figures.
15 December 2015
New UK waste figures published.
25 March 2015
This update is to add 2010-12 UK estimates that were intended for inclusion in the original release on 25 September 2014, but were withdrawn in order to allow further quality assurance.
25 September 2014
New publication released
25 September 2014
First published.
15 September 2014
Information on new release updated

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