January 19th, 2018
Marking time: England’s 2016-17 recycling statistics


by Peter Jones, Emma Fletcher and Jade Kelly
Last month’s release of the latest local authority recycling statistics for England was an event that stirred little excitement. A small uptick in the household recycling rate was enough to equal the previous high water mark of 43.7%, but represented a sixth successive year of plateauing performance – hardly deserving of high marks when other parts of the UK are advancing so much faster.
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