Highest performing London Borough: 41% (Bexley)

Average London rate: 26.75%

Average England rate: 33.69

Authority	Recycling Rate (%)
Bexley	41.64
Harrow	39.55
Richmond	36.14
Bromley	34.46
Hillingdon	33.76
City of London	33.39
Sutton	32.48
Barnet	30.68
Greenwich	30.52
Waltham Forest	29.74
Ealing	28.94
Enfield	28.19
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	27.93
Camden	27.12
Merton	27.08
Hammersmith and Fulham	26.89
Islington	26.33
Haringey	25.68
Kingston upon Thames	25.62
Lambeth	25.12
Wandsworth	24.66
Havering	23.98
Westminster	22.72
Croydon	22.71
Redbridge	22.38
Hackney	22.38
Lewisham	21.99
Hounslow	21.75
Brent	20.98
Barking and Dagenham	20.41
Southwark	20.02
Newham	14.40
Tower Hamlets	13.04

What is the highest performer doing?

The London borough of Bexley has had the high recycling and composting rate for many years. The borough has heavily invested in its recycling and composting services and has selected services that suit its particular set of circumstances.

Bexley provides its residents living in kerbside properties with a three box collection service.  A green box is provided for books, cardboard, paper and yellow pages, a maroon box for aerosols, aluminium foil, mixed cans and plastic bottles and a black box for glass bottles and jars.  Although this system may not be suitable for the high density housing that exists in large parts of London it works well in Bexley partly because the housing stock is 78% house or bungalow.  The service collects on average 211 kilograms per household per year this performance places Bexley’s eighth in the dry recycling league table.

Bexley collects garden waste and food waste mixed together on a weekly basis from all its kerbside properties for composting.  It provides liners for the kitchen caddy at a cost of 5p per liner.  Being an outer London Borough is likely to mean that there is more garden waste available for collection compared to the inner London Boroughs and Bexley has managed to capture a significant amount of this waste stream.  This service collects an average of 187 kg/hh/year this performance place Bexley in second position in the organics league table.

The combined performance of these schemes has resulted in Bexley topping the recycling and composting league table in London over previous years.

Download a summary table of kg/hh/yr for all the London Boroughs below. Click here for more information about waste and recycling in Bexley.

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