Northern Ireland’s Recycling Rate Continues To Rise

Provisional Northern Ireland local authority collected municipal waste management statistics for January to March have been published, showing the country’s recycling rate has increased from 39.7% to 43.6% for this period.

Northern Ireland’s councils collected 222,481 tonnes of local authority collected (LAC) municipal waste between January and March 2018, 2.1% lower than the 227,153 tonnes collected during the same three months of 2017. Household waste accounts for 89.3% of total LAC municipal waste.

Newry, Mourne & Down had the smallest quantity of household waste per person at 100kg, whilst the largest quantity per person was recorded in Antrim & Newtownabbey at 123kg.

The household waste preparing for reuse, dry recycling and composting rate was 43.6% between January and March 2018, an increase on the 39.7% recorded during the same three months of 2017.

At council level, rates varied from 36.1% in Causeway Coast & Glens to 48.8% in Antrim & Newtownabbey.

The LAC municipal waste energy recovery rate was 20.1%, lower than the 20.7% reported for January to March 2017. The highest rate was recorded in Newry, Mourne & Down at 52.1% and the lowest was 6.1% in Ards & North Down.

The latest quarterly landfill rate for household waste was 33.8%, a further reduction on the 39.1% recorded during the same three months of 2017. There were 46,273 tonnes of biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste sent to landfill between January and March 2018. This was 15.3% lower than the 54,617 tonnes sent between the same three months of 2017.

It also accounted for a smaller proportion of the annual allowance, 18.6% between January and March 2018 compared to 20.8% in the equivalent quarter of 2017.

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