FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02756
- Request Date
- October 9, 2018
- Subject
- Waste Disposal
- Description
Please could you provide the following information relating to the amount, cost, methods and reporting of the disposal and treatment of municipal, healthcare and clinical waste.
The questions below relate to bagged waste only, including the following:
- Municipal waste, residual (not segregated for recycling);
- Municipal waste, recyclable (segregated by single type or as a comingled recyclable stream);
- Offensive waste;
- Infectious waste streams, orange and yellow categories (not sharps).
Please indicate the total amount of waste (in weight) produced by your organisation:
Tonnes 2016/2017 Tonnes 2017/2018 Municipal, residual (black bags) Municipal, recycling Offensive (tiger strips) Infectious (orange), suitable for alternative treatment Infectious (yellow), requiring incineration The associated costs for collection and treatment/disposal of these wastes:
£ 2016/2017 £ 2017/2018 Municipal, residual (black bags) Municipal, recycling Offensive (tiger strips) Infectious (orange), suitable for alternative treatment Infectious (yellow), requiring incineration
- Response
Tonnes 2016/2017 Tonnes 2017/2018 Municipal, residual (black bags) 500.6 422.8 Municipal, recycling 313.8 356.5 Offensive (tiger strips) 247.8 268.7 Infectious (orange), suitable for alternative treatment 88 95.2 Infectious (yellow), requiring incineration 221.1 167.4 The associated costs for collection and treatment/disposal of these wastes:
£ 2016/2017 £ 2017/2018 Municipal, residual (black bags) 59,808 42,702 Municipal, recycling 6,896 25,600 Offensive (tiger strips) 44,604 48,366 Infectious (orange), suitable for alternative treatment 29,975 28,084 Infectious (yellow), requiring incineration 93,967 71,145 NB: 2016/17 costs are estimates based on Tonnage x Cost per tonne + Transport.
2017/2018 increase due to equipment costs shown against budget (Compactor, Balers, Shredder Baler)