Number of waste treatment facilities in the UK 2016-2020, by type

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Bruna Alves,
Apr 24, 2024

There were approximately 4,000 final waste treatment facilities in the United Kingdom in 2020, of which over 80 percent were recovery facilities. That year, there were another 621 facilities for the deposit into or onto land (landfill).

Number of permitted final waste treatment facilities in the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2020, by type

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Release date

June 2023

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2016 to 2020

Special properties

* Other than energy recovery (including backfilling)

Supplementary notes

This statistic using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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