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Domestic Wastes: Recycling

Volume 477: debated on Monday 16 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of household waste was recycled in each London borough in the most recent period for which figures are available. (210492)

The household recycling and composting rates for all London boroughs are calculated from data submitted to WasteDataFlow by local authorities for the period July to September 2007. This is the most recent period for which data are available. See footnote for exceptions.

Recycling and composting rates are affected by seasonal variation in waste generation and therefore the rates for the financial year 2007-08 may be notably different to the figures given in the following table.

Household recycling and composting rate July to September 2007

Authority

Percentage

Barking and Dagenham

21.50

Barnet

33.93

Bexley

44.17

Brent

21.65

Bromley

34.48

Camden

23.35

City of London

32.29

Croydon

23.38

Ealing

28.32

Enfield

29.33

Greenwich

27.22

Hackney

20.70

Hammersmith and Fulham1

23.63

Haringey

27.31

Harrow

39.02

Havering

24.04

Hillingdon

36.38

Hounslow

23.35

Islington

24.54

Lambeth1

23.10

Lewisham

20.97

Merton

26.08

Newham

13.58

Redbridge

22.25

Richmond upon Thames

35.75

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea1

24.28

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

23.95

Southwark

18.88

Sutton

35.43

Tower Hamlets

13.50

Waltham Forest

32.78

Wandsworth1

22.87

Westminster City Council

21.48

1 Recycling rates for these authorities are not available for July to September 2007. The figures are the recycling rates available for the most recent period, April 2006 to March 2007.