To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the proportion of recycled material for which the recycling process occurs in Northern Ireland.

In 2019 out of every 100 tonnes of waste material brought onto sites which were authorised and monitored by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency for recycling, 38 tonnes (38%) underwent the full recycling process in Northern Ireland, i.e. waste that has been completely or fully recycled within Northern Ireland. This fully recycled tonnage can be broken down into the following:

reprocessing of waste into aggregates (22%)

composting of organic materials (6%)

anaerobic digestion of organic materials (5%)

reprocessing of glass (2%)

other materials e.g. paper/wood/tyres/plastic/metals (3%)