Headline waste data

	2000/01 (thousand tonnes)	2007/08 (thousand tonnes)
Municipal waste arisings	4,438	4,149
Household waste arisings	3,390	3,342
Household waste recycled	304 (9%)	851 (26%)
Municipal waste recycled	344  (8%)	925 (22%)
Municipal waste incinerated with energy recovery	886 (20%)	919 (22%)
Municipal waste landfilled	3,207 (72%)	2,209 (53%)

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Recycling services

• London has 41 reuse and recycling centres operated by London waste authorities and their contractors. 
• There are approximately 4,000 bring banks in London (source: WasteDataFlow 2006/07).
• Over 90 per cent of London households receive a recycling collection of at least two materials (source: BVPI 91a 2006/07). 
• In the first two years of the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme, all of London’s 16 waste disposal authorities met their landfill diversion targets (source: Environment Agency), click here for more information.

Headline demographic data

• Greater London covers an area of 1,586.7 square kilometres.
• Its population (in 2003) was 7.355 million, and there are 3.1 million households. The Mayor's Economic Development Strategy estimates that by 2016 about 800,000 more people will be living in London.
• Londoners average productivity is 20 times higher than any other UK regions (source: Economic Development Strategy).
• 47 per cent of the housing stock in London is purpose-built or converted flats.