Castle House
Great North Road
Newark
Notts
NG24 1BY
www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk
Mr Peter Harris
Telephone: 01636 655216/7
Reply by email:
request-467680-
Email: xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxx
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Your ref:
Our ref:
RFI-2018-0285
28 February 2018
Dear Mr Harris
Request for information: RFI-2018-0285
Your request for information about rejected recycling loads has now been considered. The
information held by the Council relevant to your request is set out below:
Please send me details of the number and % of loads from N&SDC area that are rejected for
recycling by whoever [either Veolia, other MRFs or by the collection team before emptying the bins
into vehicles]. Please send me the data for the 2016. 2017 and to date in 2018.
Average monthly %
% of Recycling
Vehicle
of Material rejected
Bins Reported Bins Reported
Loads
through MRF
Contaminated Contaminated
rejected
process
2016
989
0.08%
0
9.20%
2017
960
0.07%
1
10.80%
2018
490
0.23%
0
11.20%
The 11.2% MRF rejection is for January only, all over figures for 2018 are up to 26th Feb.
This request has been handled under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
This response refers to information held by Newark & Sherwood District Council and does not
include information relating to the Council’s housing stock or the management of that stock.
This information is held by a wholly owned arm’s length company, Newark and Sherwood
Homes Ltd, which for the purposes of Freedom of Information, is classed as a separate public
body. Newark and Sherwood Homes Ltd can be contacted via their website at
www.nshomes.co.uk
If you have any further queries or concerns about the information provided please do not hesitate
to contact us. If we do not hear from you within 40 days, starting the day after the date of this
letter, we will consider the request closed.
If following our response to your query you are still dissatisfied you have the right to request an
internal review. This will be conducted by the Director of Safety or the Deputy Chief Executive
who have not been involved with the request or complaint until this point. Should you wish to
proceed to this stage please advise us quoting the reference number at the top of this page.
Should you be dissatisfied with the outcome of any internal review to the Council you have a
further right of appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office, details of which can be found on
the Information Commissioner’s websit
e www.ico.org.uk/ More details of this complaints process are available to view on our website at the following link:
www.newark-
sherwooddc.gov.uk/yourcouncil/makingarequestforinformation/accesstoinformation-
complaintsprocedure/ There is no charge for making an appeal at any stage.
Yours sincerely
David Clarke
Information Governance Officer
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