Local authority municipal waste management: July to September 2024
Data on the reuse, recycling and composting of municipal waste for July to September 2024.
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Introduction
The recycling rate is the percentage of local authority municipal waste that was reused, recycled or composted. The recycling rate has increased considerably during the last two decades (from around 5% in the late 1990s).
Main points (provisional data)
October 2023 to September 2024
- 66.8% of waste was reused/recycled/composted, an increase of 0.7% from the year ending September 2023, and the highest 12 month figure on record.
July to September 2024
- 67.4% of municipal waste was reused/recycled/composted, an increase of 0.2% on the equivalent quarter in 2023, and the second highest figure on record for a July to September quarter.
- 364,995 tonnes of municipal waste were generated, an increase of 1.1% on the same quarter of 2023 and a 1.2% increase on the same quarter of 2022.
These figures are based on provisional data which is published quarterly, with final data for the financial year published annually.
Notes
Data on waste management are collected in order to monitor progress towards national and local targets; in particular against the requirements of the Waste Framework Directive and the Landfill Directive. In its current waste strategy ‘Beyond Recycling’ (2021), the Welsh Government set statutory targets of recycling a minimum of 64% of waste by 2019-20, and 70% of waste by 2024-25.
Data are sourced from the WasteDataFlow system, which is monitored by Natural Resources Wales. Quality information is available in accompanying quality report.
