Details of recycling payments and recycling targets
Request received 10 October 2025
1a. What is 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. 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-
recyclable’ 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.
Please confirm:
My Authority already collects the complete range of specified items from households.
OR
My Authority intends to put in place collections from households for the complete range of specified items by (please specify the year and quarter).
3.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 collect and/or dispose of) for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36. Or if there are no authority- approved targets for the specific years below, please indicate what recycling performance targets or ambitions your Authority has in place, if any.
Responded 6 November 2025
1a. 2023/24: https://eastcambs.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-12/Operational%20Services%20Agenda-Reports.pdf
2024/25: https://eastcambs.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-06/Agenda%20Item%2009%20Budget%20Outturn%20Report%20Q4%202024-25_1.pdf
2025/26: https://eastcambs.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-03/budget%20book%202025%20to%202026%20for%20web_0.pdf
1b. £1,185,000. This income is received into the waste and recycling operational services revenue budget.
2.My Authority at the present time collects all of these bar plastic film and bags and intends to put in place collections of these from households by June 2026.
3.We do not have targets for these other than those set by Government.