{ "name": "workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk Workplace Waste Statistics", "title": "Workplace Waste Statistics", "url": "https://workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk/datasets/workplace-waste-statistics/", "csv": "https://workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk/datasets/workplace-waste-statistics.csv", "markdown": "https://workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk/datasets/workplace-waste-statistics/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-05", "license": "https://workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Workplace Waste Statistics is 67 percent across 3 sources' own pages (range 46 to 79.80 percent), read 12 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Workplace Waste Statistics is 67 percent across 3 sources' own pages (range 46 to 79.80 percent), read 12 September 2026.", "3 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 12 September 2026.", "Workplace Waste Statistics, nation GB-WLS: median 73.40 percent across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026.", "Workplace Waste Statistics, nation GB: median 46 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026." ], "citation": "\"workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk Workplace Waste Statistics\", updated 2026-10-05, https://workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk/datasets/workplace-waste-statistics/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 3, "median": 67, "min": 46, "max": 79.8, "p25": 46, "p75": 79.8, "mean": 64.2667, "units": { "%": 3 }, "published_sources": 3, "named_sources": 13, "read_sources": 13, "not_published": 10, "published_share": 0.231 }, "by_axis": { "nation": { "GB-WLS": { "%": { "n": 2, "median": 73.4, "min": 67, "max": 79.8, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 73.4 } }, "GB": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 46, "min": 46, "max": 46, "p25": 46, "p75": 46, "mean": 46 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "Natural Resources Wales: Industrial and Commercial Waste Survey", "url": "https://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/waste-reports/industrial-commercial-waste-survey/?lang=en", "figure": "67%", "value": 67, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "GB-WLS" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "The preparation for re-use, recycling & composting rate for industrial and commercial waste generated combined increased by 9 percentage points from 58% to 67%, while the land disposal rate decreased sharply, dropping from 26% to 11%", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "fecb98fd4a4c6ce727ac501bb27d134d170539f24c1b251b53a716566b953db7" }, { "source": "Welsh Government: local authority municipal waste management, April 2024 to March 2025", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/local-authority-municipal-waste-management-april-2024-march-2025-html", "figure": "79.8%", "value": 79.8, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "GB-WLS" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "During the same period, the non-household recycling rate decreased by 1.1 percentage points to 79.8%.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "e41e9a021670fa3eceda0dfdd8b2ca5cf67841624080231e8c968efff16da5f8" }, { "source": "WRAP: overview of waste in the hospitality and food service sector", "url": "https://www.wrap.ngo/resources/report/overview-waste-hospitality-and-food-service-sector", "figure": "46%", "value": 46, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "nation": "GB" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "The total amount of waste, including food, packaging and other ‘non-food’ waste, produced each year at HaFS outlets is 2.87 million tonnes, of which 46% is recycled, sent to anaerobic digestion (AD) or composted.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "3ab146903d483f5155b72f29d0ca14ab6ea12fd2fd04a8068d50fcbf35222e59" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "Defra: UK waste data (statistics collection)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Defra: local authority collected waste management, annual results 2024/25", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results-202425", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Defra: local authority collected waste management - annual results (series page)", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "data.gov.uk: UK Statistics on Waste dataset", "url": "https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset/uk_statistics_on_waste", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "SEPA: business waste data (Scotland)", "url": "https://www.sepa.org.uk/environment/waste/waste-data/waste-data-reporting/business-waste-data/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Welsh Government: new stats show another increase in recycling in Wales", "url": "https://www.gov.wales/new-stats-show-another-increase-recycling-wales", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "DAERA: commercial and industrial waste arising survey for Northern Ireland", "url": "https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/commercial-and-industrial-waste-arising-survey-northern-ireland", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "DAERA: Northern Ireland commercial and industrial waste estimates 2009", "url": "https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/northern-ireland-commercial-industrial-ci-waste-estimates-2009", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "the four nations' statistical producers", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "gov.uk", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data", "label": "Defra: UK waste data (statistics collection)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results-202425", "label": "Defra: local authority collected waste management, annual results 2024/25", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results", "label": "Defra: local authority collected waste management - annual results (series page)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/dataset/uk_statistics_on_waste", "label": "data.gov.uk: UK Statistics on Waste dataset", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.sepa.org.uk/environment/waste/waste-data/waste-data-reporting/business-waste-data/", "label": "SEPA: business waste data (Scotland)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/waste-reports/industrial-commercial-waste-survey/?lang=en", "label": "Natural Resources Wales: Industrial and Commercial Waste Survey", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.wales/local-authority-municipal-waste-management-april-2024-march-2025-html", "label": "Welsh Government: local authority municipal waste management, April 2024 to March 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.wales/new-stats-show-another-increase-recycling-wales", "label": "Welsh Government: new stats show another increase in recycling in Wales", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/commercial-and-industrial-waste-arising-survey-northern-ireland", "label": "DAERA: commercial and industrial waste arising survey for Northern Ireland", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/northern-ireland-commercial-industrial-ci-waste-estimates-2009", "label": "DAERA: Northern Ireland commercial and industrial waste estimates 2009", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.wrap.ngo/resources/report/overview-waste-hospitality-and-food-service-sector", "label": "WRAP: overview of waste in the hospitality and food service sector", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data", "label": "the four nations' statistical producers", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data", "label": "gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 13 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 53 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one comparable series per nation for commercial and industrial waste generated and the share recycled, rebased onto a common year and a common definition, with the per-employee and per-workplace intensity derived by joining the arisings to the ONS business population - which none of the four statistical producers publishes, because each reports tonnes on its own survey cycle and none divides by the businesses that made them. Plus the Wales workplace-recycling series as the only natural experiment in the UK: the change in workplace recyclate collected since a separation duty started.", "embed": "

67 percent

median published figure, Workplace Waste Statistics, across 3 sources, read 12 September 2026

Source: workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk Workplace Waste Statistics
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