The results are from the period 2003/04, using data collated by the Audit Commission and released by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in January 2005. The figures are subject to a review once detailed tonnage data is available through the Municipal Waste Management Survey 2003/04, to be published later in 2005.

Recycling rates

England 2004/05 England 2002/03  Scotland 2004/05  Scotland 2003/04  Wales 2004/05  Wales 2003/04

To see the letsrecycle.com top 15, showing the best 15 councils for recycling of each type, see the bottom of this page. For the full 2003/04 recycling results for English councils, click on these links:

• English local authorities ranked by recycling & composting performance
• English local authorities listed in alphabetical order

The letsrecycle.com top 15 (below) shows the best combined recycling and composting performances for each type of local authority in 2003/04:

	Districts/Boroughs		Counties		Unitaries
Rank		Rate (%)		Rate (%)		Rate (%)
1	Lichfield	46	Dorset	29	Isle of Wight	35
2	Daventry	42	Cambridgeshire	29	Bath & North East Somerset	29
3	East Hampshire	36	Hampshire	27	Peterborough	27
4	St Edmundsbury	35	Somerset	27	Wokingham	26
5	Forest Heath	33	Devon	27	Sutton LB	25
6	Melton	31	Buckinghamshire	26	Milton Keynes	24
7	Eastleigh	31	Lancashire	26	Hillingdon LB	24
8	Canterbury	30	Suffolk	26	Windsor & Maidenhead	23
9	Horsham	30	Leicestershire	26	Bournemouth	23
10	Wealden	30	Norfolk	26	Richmond-upon-Thames LB	22
11	Staffordshire Moorlands	30	Essex	25	Torbay	21
12	Fylde	30	Oxfordshire	24	Bexley LB	21
13	South Cambridgeshire	28	Kent	23	Bromley LB	20
14	Breckland	28	Shropshire	23	North East Lincolnshire	20
15	Forest of Dean	27	Nottinghamshire	23	North Lincolnshire	20

Data taken from ODPM statistics