Last summer, Resource Futures reported that for the first time - since reliable data on household waste recycling centre (HWRC) performance has been available - overall HWRC recycling rates in England were beginning to slow down. At that point, it was too early to say whether the stats signified the start of a period of stagnation for recycling at England's HWRCs, or if it was just a bit of a "blip". However, our latest review has revealed further falls in England and Scotland, whilst Wales and Northern Ireland have seen an increase. So what's going on at our HWRCs? The important measure is the recycling rate, excluding soil/ rubble (as including it can give a distorted view of the general recycling efficiency of a site), and in England between 2011/12 and 2012/13 HWRC recycling rates dropped from 63 to 61.3 percent, which is worrying. In Scotland the drop was 1.3 percent; whilst in the same period the rate in Wales increased by 2.5 percent and in Northern Ireland by 0.5 percent.
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