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Every year letsrecycle.com conducts a survey to determine the councils with the highest levels of recycling and composting. With 70% of waste diverted from landfills South Oxfordshire is at the top of the table this year followed by Rochford (65.46%) and Surrey Heath Borough came in third with 64.73% of recycled and composted waste.
Letsrecycle.com survey is an independent survey and comes ahead of the “official” league table generated by Defra’s waste statistics bureau WasteDataFlow which is expected to be published in a few months’ time. Since letsrecycle.com survey doesn’t have access to WasteDataFlow data we should expect changes when the “official” league table is published.
Top 10 Recycling and Composting Councils
1. South Oxfordshire - With an impressive total recycling rate of 70%, dry recycling rate of 40.97% and composting rate of 29.6%.
2. Rochford District Council - 65% total recycling rate, 29% dry recycling rate and 36.4% composting rate.
3. Surrey Heath BC – 64.73% total recycling rate, 52.68% dry recycling rate (the highest levels in this category) and 12% composting rate.
4. Bournemouth BC – 63.9% total recycling rate, 41.81% dry recycling rate and 21.98% composting rate.
5. Cotswold DC – 60.41% total recycling rate, 25.29% dry recycling rate and 35.12% composting rate.
6. Staffordshire Moorlands – 60.23% total recycling rate, 19.41% dry recycling rate and 40.82% composting rate (the highest levels in this category).
7. Stratford-on-Avon DC – 59.3% total recycling rate, 27.16% dry recycling rate and 32.14% composting rate.
8. Epping Forest BC – 58.14% total recycling rate, 28.84% dry recycling rate and 30.5% composting rate.
9. Suffolk Coastal DC – 58.65% total recycling rate, 26.48% dry recycling rate and 32.16% composting rate.
10. Harborough DC - 58.1% total recycling rate, 18.7% dry recycling rate and 39.34% composting rate
It is important to note that the only council that doesn’t have food waste collection and alternate-weekly collection services is Bournemouth DC and surprisingly still ranks in 4th positions. All the other councils have weekly food waste collection and AWC (alternate-weekly collection).
As stated by the majority of these councils, the formula to success was the introduction of alternate-weekly collections of residual waste and recycling alongside weekly food waste collections associated with other innovative waste management solutions such as the range extension of collectable recyclables to include glass, food and drinks cartons, aerosols and foil for the first time.
The leading council of South Oxfordshire even implemented software and microchips in wheeled bins to help answer residents queries and service complaints. Missed bins are now running at a very low 25 per 100,000 collections per week. Now that is what I call an innovative waste management service!
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