Waste management Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2018

Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 20181
Type of packagingTotal quantity
collected
Destination
sorting facilities
(in-house and external)
recovery operators
(including scrap merchants)
1,000 tonnes
1: Including sales packaging collected from commercial and industrial final consumers.
2: Including non-separately collected packaging.
Packaging for non-hazardous filling goods made of:
Glass162.3132.829.5
Paper and board2,999.51,312.91,686.7
Metals64.331.033.2
Ferrous metals50.925.525.4
Aluminium3.22.21.0
Other scrap metal, metal composites10.23.46.8
Plastics331.9149.8182.0
Wood544.4189.2355.3
Composites56.834.422.4
Other materials2656.6486.0170.6
Subtotal4,815.92,336.22,479.7
Packaging for hazardous filling goods21.910.511.4
Total4,837.82,346.72,491.1

As at 16 April 2020

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