Havering's service gained one star. It was judged fair but with promising prospects for improving.
Bromley serves 127,600 households and 8,270 businesses. Its domestic and trade refuse collection, street cleansing, recycling and waste disposal service cost 16.39 million in 2002/03.
The inspectors found high satisfaction with the standard of street cleansing and refuse collection, and a good range of on-street recycling facilities.
More than 10 per cent of households undertake home composting with the assistance of council subsidised bins, and green waste is sent to farms.
They also praised the close working relationship between council and contractor Onyx.
Segregated collection arrangements will be introduced in November and residents will be asked to recycle glass, paper and aluminium cans.
Greenwich
Greenwich council collects refuse from 93,000 households, and 2,000 businesses. Together with street sweeping, recycling and waste disposal, the service cost almost 12 million in 2001/02.
The council's recycling rates are top quartile, and it is diverting almost two thirds of its waste away from landfill.
But costs were above average and performance management “limited”.
Havering
Havering collects domestic refuse collection from 94,364 households, and around 1,100 businesses, through its contractor Cleanaway.
The waste collection service costs 1.657 million a year. Street cleansing is provided by the direct service organisation on a 2.944 million annual budget.
The recycling service was well integrated with refuse collection including kerbside collection of recyclable materials with free bags.
In 2000/01, 12 per cent of household refuse was recycled, placing Havering in the top performing quartile.
But the inspectors criticised the maintenance of some bring back recycling sites as “poor”.
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