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This section (produced in December 2006) contains the latest
household or municipal waste recycling and composting rates achieved by English local authorities and covers 2005/06.
The results use audited figures provided by Defra.
See below for the top 15 councils in each local authority category (district, unitary and county). For the full set of recycling and composting results for England in 2005/06 please click
this link:
For England as a whole, 26.7% of household waste was
recycled in 2005/6 – exceeding the government’s target of
25%. No targets have been set for 2006/07, while targets for
2007/08 remain the same as 2005/06, but with the lowest
council targets rising to 20%.
The letsrecycle.com top 15 (below) shows the best combined recycling and composting performances for each type of local authority in 2005/06:
Districts & boroughs;
Counties; Unitary
and metropolitan authorities
| District and Borough councils |
|
Rank |
Local authority |
Recycling rate (%) |
Composting rate (%) |
Total |
2005/06 target |
|
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|
|
|
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|
|
1 |
North Kesteven |
28.72 |
22.8 |
51.5 |
18 |
|
2 |
Rushcliffe |
24.6 |
25.3 |
49.9 |
18 |
|
3 |
South Cambridgeshire |
18.1 |
31.3 |
49.4 |
24 |
|
4 |
St Edmundsbury |
21.52 |
27.1 |
48.6 |
30 |
|
5 |
Huntingdonshire |
25 |
23 |
48 |
21 |
|
6 |
Melton Mowbray |
23.03 |
24.04 |
47.1 |
30 |
|
7 |
Waveney |
25.84 |
20.75 |
46.6 |
18 |
|
8 |
Forest Heath |
22.34 |
23.77 |
46.1 |
30 |
|
9 |
Lichfield |
22.45 |
22.93 |
45.4 |
30 |
|
10 |
Teignbridge |
19.58 |
25.81 |
45.4 |
30 |
|
11 |
Daventry |
15.62 |
29.01 |
44.6 |
30 |
|
12 |
Harborough |
18.6 |
25.73 |
44.3 |
18 |
|
13 |
Broadland |
30.96 |
12.48 |
43.4 |
27 |
|
14 |
Cherwell |
22.37 |
20.92 |
43.3 |
18 |
|
15 |
Ryedale |
18.24 |
24.53 |
42.8 |
30 |
|
Unitary and Metropolitan councils |
|
Rank |
Local authority |
Recycling rate (%) |
Composting rate (%) |
Total |
2005/06 target |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
Isle of Wight |
15.08 |
23.71 |
38.8 |
30 |
|
2 |
Bexley |
21.5 |
16.21 |
37.7 |
30 |
|
3 |
South Gloucestershire |
19.21 |
18.19 |
37.4 |
21 |
|
4 |
Bath & N.E Somerset |
23.64 |
13.33 |
37 |
30 |
|
5 |
Redcar and Cleveland |
18.07 |
17.67 |
35.7 |
18 |
|
6 |
Peterborough |
17.15 |
18.49 |
35.6 |
30 |
|
7 |
Milton Keynes |
19.85 |
11.72 |
31.6 |
30 |
|
8 |
Stockport |
15 |
16.56 |
31.6 |
30 |
|
9 |
Telford and Wrekin |
17.6 |
12.9 |
30.5 |
18 |
|
10 |
Sutton |
20.21 |
8.86 |
29.1 |
30 |
|
11 |
Windsor & Maidenhead |
21.48 |
7.5 |
29 |
30 |
|
12 |
Richmond |
21.06 |
7.53 |
28.6 |
30 |
|
13 |
Poole |
21.58 |
6.83 |
28.4 |
30 |
|
14 |
Bracknell Forest |
18.69 |
9.27 |
28 |
27 |
|
15 |
Hillingdon |
16.3 |
11.4 |
27.7 |
21 |
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County councils |
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Rank |
Local authority |
Recycling rate (%) |
Composting rate (%) |
Total |
2005/06 target |
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|
|
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|
|
|
1 |
Cambridgeshire |
21.61 |
21.87 |
43.5 |
30 |
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2 |
Suffolk |
22.61 |
18.11 |
40.7 |
30 |
|
3 |
Devon |
23.89 |
16.7 |
40.6 |
30 |
|
4 |
Leicestershire |
19.53 |
21.07 |
40.6 |
30 |
|
5 |
Somerset |
24.15 |
16.29 |
40.4 |
30 |
|
6 |
Dorset |
23.49 |
14.87 |
38.4 |
30 |
|
7 |
Nottinghamshire |
25.27 |
12.1 |
37.4 |
24 |
|
8 |
Buckinghamshire |
21.4 |
14.1 |
35.5 |
30 |
|
9 |
Lancashire |
21.43 |
13.72 |
35.2 |
30 |
|
10 |
Norfolk |
23.75 |
11.07 |
34.8 |
30 |
|
11 |
Shropshire |
16.11 |
18.69 |
34.8 |
21 |
|
12 |
Northamptonshire |
18.5 |
16.09 |
34.6 |
27 |
|
13 |
Lincolnshire |
18.6 |
15.3 |
33.9 |
30 |
|
14 |
Staffordshire |
17.06 |
16.62 |
33.7 |
27 |
|
15 |
Oxfordshire |
21.65 |
11.71 |
33.4 |
30 |
Data taken from Defra statistics
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