Packaging: Recycling
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many aluminium cans were exported from the UK for recycling via the Packaging Export Recovery Note system in each year from 2023 to 2025.
Answered by Mary Creagh
In 2023 there were 109,638 tonnes of waste packaging aluminium reported to the Environment Agency as being exported from England via the Packaging Export Recovery Note system. In 2024 there were 105,821 tonnes reported, in 2025 there were 103,888 tonnes reported.
This total includes waste packaging aluminium, as opposed to just aluminium cans, as figures are recorded by material rather than packaging types.
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