How much newspaper is sent to Landfill?

One of the success stories of Australian newspaper recycling has been the volumes of newsprint diverted from landfill.  

Since 1990, the amount of newspaper sent to landfills has dropped dramatically from 367,824 tonnes to 144,685 tonnes, that’s 39% of the waste previously not recycled.

We estimate that the total waste stream to landfill has actually risen considerably over that time, from 12.3 million tonnes in 1990 to about 22.45 million tonnes in 2002 and close to double that in 2009. But the amount of newspapers have gone from 3.28% of national landfill volumes to about 0.65%.