Highest performing London Borough: 33.02% (City of London)

Average London rate: 20.53% (collection and unitary authorities)

Average England rate: 21.77% (collection and unitary authorities)

Authority	Dry recycling (%)
City of London	33.02
Bromley	27.62
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	27.03
Greenwich	25.74
Hammersmith and Fulham	25.39
Richmond upon Thames	24.60
Wandsworth	24.37
Bexley	24.03
Camden	23.89
Merton	23.33
Sutton	22.61
Lambeth	22.54
Westminster City Council	21.88
Lewisham	21.40
Harrow	21.35
Hillingdon	21.17
Ealing	21.08
Islington	20.92
Waltham Forest	19.69
Haringey	19.11
Kingston upon Thames	18.96
Barnet	18.26
Enfield	18.08
Hounslow	17.49
Redbridge	17.39
Croydon	16.42
Havering	16.16
Southwark	16.01
Hackney	15.85
Barking and Dagenham	14.83
Tower Hamlets	12.89
Newham	12.34
Brent	12.08

What is the highest performer doing?

The City of London tops the dry recycling league table and collects 215 kilograms per household per year of dry materials from its residents (download a summary table of kg/hh/yr for all the London boroughs below).  The City of London provides at least a twice weekly collection of dry comingled recycling collections to its residents living in the four estates in its area and daily collections to the residents living in flats above shops and in kerbside properties.  Residents are provided with a single use sack which they can use to recycle aerosols, books, cardboard, food and drink cartons, glass bottles and jars, mixed cans, paper, plastic bottles and yellow pages.

The City of London is the second least deprived authority in London, covers the smallest area and has the lowest number of households than any other borough.  Of these households, 90% are flatted properties.

Over recent years the City has significantly improved its recycling performance from being one of the lowest performing authorities in London to the highest performing when considering dry recycling only and sixth highest performing authority when considering dry recycling and composting. 

Click here for more information about waste and recycling in the City of London.

This analysis is based on data downloaded from www.wastedataflow.org in 2008 and information from borough sources provided for www.capitalwastefacts.com.