Response 3828268

Response to request for information

Reference

3828268

Response date

12 November 2025

Request

1a For all Authorities – Financial question: what are your Authority’s financial expenditure outturns (revenue, not capital) for the years for your recycling and waste service? 

1b For all Authorities – Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26?

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

3 For all Authorities – targets/ambitions: please indicate what authority-approved recycling targets/ambitions you have in place for, firstly, all recycling (dry-recycling and organics) and, secondly, for dry-recycling (i.e. the collective target for the range of packaging & other recyclable materials you collects and/or dispose of) for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36. 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. 

OR
Recycling performance targets/ambitions your Authority has in place, if any: please insert your text.

Response

1a For all Authorities – Financial question: what are your Authority’s financial expenditure outturns (revenue, not capital) for the years for your recycling and waste service? 
 
Please see below and note revenue expenditure only and does not include any income

• 2023/24 - £3,660,000
• 2024/25 - £3,945,000

What revenue budget for your recycling and waste service has your Authority set for 2025/26 - £4,279,000

1b For all Authorities – Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26?  - £1,250,000

To which of your Authority’s services is this funding allocated? (Please specify the service, or services, this funding is allocated to).

General dry recycling services including the roll out of a new kerbside glass recycling service

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; From 1st December 2025
• Steel and aluminium tin cans, aerosols, foils, food trays, jar & bottle lids, and aluminium tubes, bottles and jars; Some collected currently including steel and aluminium cans, aerosols.
• Plastics PET, PP, LDPE and HDPE bottles, pots, tubs, trays and tubes. Some collected currently include plastic bottles, others to be included from March 2026
• Plastic polyolefin film packaging and plastic bags (which contain a minimum of 90% by weight of - mono-polyethylene, mono-polypropylene, or both). From October 2027
• All paper and card except the following … Currently collected now
  1. fibre-based composite where the non-paper fibre content is more than 15% by weight,
  2. fibre-based composite which has layers of plastic on both sides (double-sided lamination),
  3. fibre-based composite cups,
  4. paper and card to which glitter has been adhered,
  5. paper and card to which foil has been adhered, where the non-paper fibre content is more than 15% by weight,
  6. greaseproof, siliconised or waxed paper,
  7. stickers,
  8. padded polyethylene lined envelopes,
  9. paperback and hardback books,
  10. wallpaper.

My Authority intends to put in place collections from households for the complete range of specified items by the quarter indicated: please tick the relevant quarter.
Q4
Later than 2026/27 TRUE

3 For all Authorities – targets/ambitions: please indicate what authority-approved recycling targets/ambitions you have in place for, firstly, all recycling (dry-recycling and organics) and, secondly, for dry-recycling (i.e. the collective target for the range of packaging & other recyclable materials you collects and/or dispose of) for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36. 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. 

Target Year Overall Recycling Target (dry-recycling and organics)

Dry-recycling Target

• 2025/26 50% to include dry recycling and organics (garden waste)
• 2030/31 Not set
• 2035/36 Not set

OR
Recycling performance targets/ambitions your Authority has in place, if any: please insert your text. - In line with Simpler Recycling legislation future targets will be set to meet national targets after the implementation of LGR