FOI release

Recycling and waste data

Case reference EIR2025/02988

Received 19 December 2025

Published 22 December 2025

Request

As a freedom of information request, please provide the following information, for each financial year from 2018-19 up to the first two quarters of 2025/2026 (up and including September 2025). If data is not available up until this date please provide the most recent available data and specify the period it applies for: a - tonnage of household waste recycled under your waste disposal responsibilities b- tonnage of collected household recycling rejected, split by how it was then processed (such as energy-from-waste / incineration, landfill) c- tonnage of household material recycled within England d- tonnage of household material recycled outside of England, split by material type if possible e - tonnage of household recycling waste exported overseas split by how it will be processed (such as recycled or incinerated) f - if available, please provide the tonnage of household recycling waste exported overseas split by how it will be processed and destination country. If figures are not available in tonnage, please instead provide them in another available weight measure. If another weight measure is not available, please provide it in whatever measure is available.

Response

All local authorities in the UK are legally required to submit waste data, including tonnage data and waste destinations, to DEFRA via the Wastedataflow website.

This information is available to the public by registering for an account with Wastedataflow.

www.wastedataflow.org

https://www.wastedataflow.org/Register.aspx

In accordance with Regulation 6(1)(b) of the Environmental Information Regulations, this information is already publicly available    and easily accessible to you through other means, we are not required to provide it in another form or format in response to your request. 

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Portsmouth City Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.