It's gone down and, although we were all expecting it, this is still big news for local authorities and waste managers. For the first time since Defra started reporting household recycling figures, the annual UK rate has fallen after staggering along flatly in recent years. The overall 2015 rate of 44.3% was 0.6 percentage points below the year before, with England's slump from 44.8% to 43.9% the key factor because its scale dominates the data. Scotland and Wales, on the other hand, continue to improve their national rates.
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