Recycling tonnage since 2018
Request received 12 December 2025
As a freedom of information request, please provide, for each financial year from 2018-19 to the most recent available at the point of production, the following:
1a. Tonnes of household recycling collected
1b. Tonnes of collected household recycling rejected
1c. Tonnes of collected household recycling rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
2a. Tonnes of non-household recycling collected
2b. Tonnes of non-household recycling rejected
2c. Tonnes of non-household material rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
3a. Tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public
3b. Tonnes of household recycling taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected
3c. Tonnes of household material taken to recycling centres by the public that is rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill)
4a. Tonnage or percentage of material recycled within the UK
4b. Tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed (such as recycled or incinerated)
4c. If available, please provide the tonnage or percentage of material exported overseas split by how it will be processed and destination country.
If tonnes are not available, please provide percentages or other available measure. If the whole period requested is not available, please instead provide data from the earliest point available till the most recent at the point of production. If possible, please provide this data as a csv file.
Responded 16 December 2025
Q1, 2 & 4 - Our waste collection tonnage, both recycling and no-recycling is available through the publicly accessible database: WasteDataFlow Waste Management This details all of our waste data since 2006.
Q3. This falls under the remit of Cambridgeshire County Council. Please redirect your enquiry to: foi@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act:
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
c) State why the exemption applies:
The information requested is accessible to you via other means at:
Section 21 states the following:
1) Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under Section 1 is exempt information.
2) For the purposes of subsection (1) –
a. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
b. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
Therefore, as the Council publish this information, the information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Act.