What happens to your waste
What happened to your waste 2023/24
Final destination for household waste produced in Buckinghamshire as a percentage of all waste.
An end destination is classed as the location where the material ceases to be waste, after having been recycled into a new product for example.
Figure 3: Pie chart showing end destination countries for total waste collected- Combining all waste streams and broken down by country
| Values | Percentage (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 221,820 | 95.7% |
| India | 4,680 | 2.0% |
| Turkey | 1,534 | 0.7% |
| Malaysia | 1,389 | 0.6% |
| Vietnam | 396 | 0.2% |
| Spain | 353 | 0.2% |
| Germany | 353 | 0.2% |
| Thailand | 296 | 0.1% |
| Outside EU | 261 | 0.1% |
| France | 166 | 0.1% |
| EU | 148 | 0.1% |
| Other/Exempt | 115 | 0.0% |
| Netherlands | 107 | 0.0% |
| Laos | 54 | 0.0% |
| Greece | 3 | 0.0% |
| Pakistan | - | - % |
| Bangladesh | - | - % |
| Czech Republic | - | - % |
| Belgium | - | - % |
| Poland | - | - % |
| Italy | - | - % |
| Republic of Ireland | - | - % |