More on the Defra Survey from the BuilderScrap.com team.

Respondents were asked what items were collected for recycling or composting from outside their homes by the council. Table 16 shows that respondents were most likely to report that paper, tins and cans, and glass bottles and jars were part of their council‟s collection. Around three quarters of respondents mentioned cardboard and plastics. There was an increase in the proportion of respondents saying that they could recycle these items outside their homes since 2007, with the exception of paper items which was consistently listed by 94% respondents in 2007 and 2009. For some items including tins, glass objects and garden waste this increase was by more than 10 percentage points, whilst for food waste, clothes and shoes the increase was slightly less (by six to eight percentage points).

Levels of use of doorstep recycling facilities tended to reflect reported provision of these facilities (see Table 17). Use of recycling and composting door-step collection facilities had increased for nearly all types of waste since 2007 but most notably for plastic items (increased by 19 percentage points), cardboard (up by 18 percentage points) and tins/cans and glass items (which have increased by 17 percentage points). The only small decrease between 2007 and 2009 was for garden waste. In 2007, 55% of those with a garden said they normally put out garden waste for council collection. This had dropped to 51% in 2009.

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