Recycling and Composting

HC Deb 25 July 2000 vol 354 cc582-3W

Mr. Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the Government's recycling and composting targets for each of the next five years. [132569]

Mr. Mullin

The Government have set the following targets for recycling and composting of household wasteto recycle or compost 17 per cent. of household waste in the financial year 2003–04 to recycle or compost 25 per cent. of household waste in the financial year 2005–06.

There are no specific targets for the recycling and composting of industrial and commercial waste. However the Government have set a target of, by 2005, reducing the amount of commercial and industrial waste landfilled to 85 per cent. of that landfilled in 1998.