Recycled waste

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Dear Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please can you tell me of the waste collected by the authority's waste collection department:

What is the recycle rate of Green compostable Waste?
What is the recycle rate of Bottles, plastics and tins?
What is the recycle rate of Wastepaper?

ie the percentages of the waste collected for the different categories which is actually recycled.

If you do not have the figures for the categories specified above - then please would you supply the percentages for the categories of collected waste which you do process.

Please also state what your target recycling rates are for each of the categories.

Yours faithfully,

Danniel Brickner

FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Brickner,

Thank you for your request for information submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which has been given the above mentioned reference number. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding your request.

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Yours sincerely,

Kerrie Harris
CSS Graduate Development Officer
Business Support – Information Governance

Stockport Council
Town Hall
Stockport
SK1 3XE

Tel: 0161 474 5124
http://www.stockport.gov.uk

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FOI Officer, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Brickner

 

I am writing in response to your request for information (ref FOI 20123).

 

The relevant Council Service(s) has searched for the requested information
and our response is as follows:

 

Please can you tell me of the waste collected by the authority's waste
collection department:

 

What is the recycle rate of Green compostable Waste?

What is the recycle rate of Bottles, plastics and tins?

What is the recycle rate of Wastepaper?

 

i.e. the percentages of the waste collected for the different categories
which is actually recycled.

 

If you do not have the figures for the categories specified above - then
please would you supply the percentages for the categories of collected
waste which you do process 

The information you have requested above is exempt under Section 21 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 as it information reasonably accessible by
other means.

 

Please follow the link to the website: [1]www.wastedataflow.org

 

Please also state what your target recycling rates are for each of the
categories.

We do not have recycling targets for specific waste streams.

 

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request for
information, you are entitled to ask for an internal review; however you
must do so within 40 working days of the date of this response. Any
internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was
not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review,
contact [2][email address] in the first instance.

 

If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are
entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

[3]www.ico.gov.uk

 

01625 545 745

 

Yours sincerely

Jill Barlow

CSS Senior Officer – Information Governance

Stockport Council

Town Hall

Stockport

SK1 3XE

 

Tel: 0161 474 3319

Fax: 0161 474 4006

http://www.stockport.gov.uk

 

 

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