Methodology & Notes on Data
Data Source - National Waste and Resource Recovery Database 2024, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Released: December 2024
Note –
- Financial year. The database covers the years 2006-07 to 2022-23, except 2007-08, 2011-12 and 2012-13.
- Recovery rate = ((recycling + energy recovery + waste reuse) ÷ total waste generated) *100
- Waste generated = recovered + Disposed
- Figures rounded
- The headline scope of waste reporting, as per the Australian standard for waste and resource recovery data and reporting (second edition), is 'core waste plus ash'.
- Estimate what each state could recover if it matched SA’s rate:
target recovered total = SA recovery rate × total waste generated of each state
