Waste management Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 2019

Used transport and secondary packaging collected in 20191
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:
Glass210.9173.637.3
Paper and board3,054.21,367.71,686.5
Metals59.126.532.6
Ferrous metals46.621.425.3
Aluminium3.61.12.4
Other scrap metal, metal composites8.94.04.9
Plastics349.2155.2194.1
Wood550.0193.6356.4
Composites58.637.221.3
Other materials2596.9423.9173.0
Subtotal4,879.02,377.72,501.3
Packaging for hazardous filling goods15.45.210.2
Total4,894.32,382.92,511.4

As at 12 April 2021

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