Monthly plastic waste exports from the UK 2022, by type

Published by
Bruna Alves,
Sep 10, 2024
Polyethylene (PE) is the most exported plastic waste type from the United Kingdom. During 2022, the largest quantity of polyethylene waste the UK exported was in April, at 23 million metric tons. In January that year the UK exported only 17.5 million metric tons of polyethylene.

Monthly exports of plastic waste from the United Kingdom from January 2022 to December 2022, by type (in metric tons)

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May 2023

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

January 2022 to December 2022

Supplementary notes

Commodity trade code 3915 - Waste, parings and scrap, of plastics
*(that of polymers of ethylene, styrene and vinyl chloride)
This statistic is using original data from the HM Revenue and Customs and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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