FOI Request - Recycling and Waste Management Services
Request 101003866838
1. a) For all Authorities – Financial question: What are your Authority’s financial expenditure outturns (revenue, not capital) for the years:
i) 2023/24 and
ii) 2024/25 for your recycling and waste service?
iii) What revenue budget for your recycling and waste service has your Authority set for 2025/26
b) i) For all Authorities – Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26?
b) ii) 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 i) fibre-based composite where the non-paper fibre content is more than 15% by weight,
o ii) fibre-based composite which has layers of plastic on both sides (double-sided lamination),
o iii) fibre-based composite cups,
o iv) paper and card to which glitter has been adhered,
o v) paper and card to which foil has been adhered, where the non-paper fibre content is more than 15% by weight,
o vi) greaseproof, siliconised or waxed paper,
o vii) stickers,
o viii) padded polyethylene lined envelopes,
o ix) paperback and hardback books,
o x) wallpaper.
3. For all Authorities – targets/ambitions: please indicate what authority-approved recycling targets/ambitions you have in place for, for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36.
a) all recycling (dry-recycling and organics) and,
b) for dry-recycling (i.e. the collective target for the range of packaging & other recyclable materials you collects and/or dispose of)
c) 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.
Response 05-11-2025
1.a) Outturn for 2023/24: £7,834,095
Outturn for 2024/25: £8,156,007
Budget for 2025/26: £8,933,200
b)i) £ Value of pEPR payment 2025/26: £3,282,749.65
ii) Specify the service(s) your pEPR funding is allocated to: Funds will be used to support the Councils overall budgetary gap
2. Intended quarter period by which you will have collections for the complete range of these ‘dry-recyclable’ items from households in place: 2026/27 Q4
3. No specific targets set. However, the Council aims to align its services to the Circular Economy & Waste Route Map to 2030.