Chapter 7 - Sustainable Development, Military Aid to the Civil Authorities and Conflict Prevention
                         
Table 7.1 Waste recycled and reused by the Ministry of Defence1
Target: Government Departments to reduce their waste arisings by 5% by 2010 and 25% by 2020, against their baseline (2007/08 for MOD).

Target: Government Departments to increase their recycling figures to 40% of their waste arisings by 2010/11 and to 75% of their waste arisings by 2020.

MOD has established a waste baseline for 2007/08 covering around 75% of known MOD waste. This resulted from work with the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) and the Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Procurement (CESP) to identify what should be included. This baseline differs from previously published figures which were based on the best available data at the time. The apparent reduction in waste recycled from 2005/06 to 2007/08 is due to improvements in data quality.

The data in this table are not National Statistics because they have not been assessed as such by the UK Statistics Authority.
  2004/05   2005/06   2006/07   2007/08     2008/09 2009/10
Waste Arisings2 (Metric Tonnes) ..   ..   ..   177 000     170 000 160 000
Percentage reduction in waste arisings ..   ..   ..   ..     4.3 9.8
Percentage recycled/reused3 23   39   37   34   || 51 53
Source: Safety, Sustainable Development and Continuity Division
1. Waste data covers the UK including Trading Fund Agencies, plus MOD sites in Germany.
2. The waste arisings data in the table are calculated from weighed waste data and using volumetric conversion factors. (Volumetric conversion is a method
    which calculates the weight of the waste using a standardised conversion factor for the type of waste and the volume disposed of). Waste arisings prior to
    2007/08 are not shown as the data quality is believed to be poor due to difficulties gathering accurate waste data.
3. The recycling figures prior to 2008/09 are based on the best available data at the time. This means they should not be compared with the percentage
    recycled/reused figure for 2008/09 onwards which has been calculated against the new baseline.