Release

Material flows and material footprint accounts, UK: 2023

Release date: 15 May 2023 9:30am

Summary

Data on the UK’s domestic extraction, imports and exports and flow of materials (biomass, minerals and fossil fuels), 1990 to 2021 and the UK’s material footprint captures domestic and foreign extraction of materials needed to produce products used in the UK.

Data

  • Material flow accounts

    Data on the UK's domestic extraction, imports and exports and flow of materials (biomass, minerals and fossil fuels), 1990 to 2022.

  • Material footprint in the UK

    The UK’s material footprint captures the amount of domestic and foreign extraction of materials needed to produce the goods and services used by households, governments and charities in the UK.

Contact details

Name

Chukwudi Egbumokei

Email

environment.accounts@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 1633 456660

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest