Rankings · Methodology · Service quality · Waste & recycling

Household waste sent for reuse recycling or composting

Higher is better. One of the measures behind the waste & recycling score; councils are listed by their rank on it alone, which is not their overall rank. The median of the 130 is 37.4%.

Ex NI192.

Household waste sent for reuse recycling or composting by council
Rank	Council	Household waste sent for reuse recycling or composting	Type
=1	Milton Keynes	63.2%	Unitary council
=1	East Riding of Yorkshire	61.0%	Unitary council
=1	Dorset	59.9%	Unitary council
=1	North Somerset	59.6%	Unitary council
=1	Stockport	59.5%	Metropolitan borough
=1	South Gloucestershire	58.3%	Unitary council
=1	Wokingham	58.2%	Unitary council
8	Cheshire West and Chester	57.6%	Unitary council
9	Trafford	57.5%	Metropolitan borough
10	Rutland	57.4%	Unitary council
11	Bath and North East Somerset	56.5%	Unitary council
12	Somerset	55.5%	Unitary council
13	Bracknell Forest	53.5%	Unitary council
14	West Berkshire	52.5%	Unitary council
15	Bury	51.2%	Metropolitan borough
16	Shropshire	50.9%	Unitary council
17	North Lincolnshire	50.5%	Unitary council
=18	Westmorland and Furness	50.2%	Unitary council
=18	Wigan	50.2%	Metropolitan borough
20	Cumberland	50.1%	Unitary council
21	Bromley	49.9%	London borough
22	Reading	49.4%	Unitary council
23	Ealing	49.2%	London borough
24	Buckinghamshire	48.9%	Unitary council
25	Bolton	48.3%	Metropolitan borough
26	Wakefield	48.2%	Metropolitan borough
=27	Bexley	48.0%	London borough
=27	Rochdale	48.0%	Metropolitan borough
29	Telford and Wrekin	47.9%	Unitary council
30	Cheshire East	47.8%	Unitary council
31	Tameside	47.5%	Metropolitan borough
32	Salford	47.3%	Metropolitan borough
33	Kingston upon Hull, City of	47.2%	Unitary council
34	Rotherham	47.1%	Metropolitan borough
35	Doncaster	46.7%	Metropolitan borough
36	Windsor and Maidenhead	46.2%	Unitary council
37	Barnsley	45.7%	Metropolitan borough
38	Cornwall	45.1%	Unitary council
39	Isle of Wight	44.8%	Unitary council
=40	North Northamptonshire	44.4%	Unitary council
=40	West Northamptonshire	44.4%	Unitary council
42	Kingston upon Thames	44.2%	London borough
43	Bristol, City of	44.1%	Unitary council
44	Warrington	44.0%	Unitary council
45	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	43.9%	Unitary council
46	Solihull	43.7%	Metropolitan borough
47	Oldham	43.0%	Metropolitan borough
48	Richmond upon Thames	42.6%	London borough
49	Central Bedfordshire	42.4%	Unitary council
50	North Yorkshire	42.3%	Unitary council
51	Calderdale	41.9%	Metropolitan borough
52	Wiltshire	41.8%	Unitary council
53	Sutton	41.0%	London borough
54	York	40.8%	Unitary council
=55	Blackpool	40.7%	Unitary council
=55	Torbay	40.7%	Unitary council
57	Leicester	40.4%	Unitary council
58	Southend-on-Sea	39.4%	Unitary council
59	Dudley	39.2%	Metropolitan borough
60	Manchester	38.9%	Metropolitan borough
61	Derby	38.7%	Unitary council
62	Herefordshire, County of	38.6%	Unitary council
63	Peterborough	38.2%	Unitary council
64	Havering	38.0%	London borough
65	Merton	37.5%	London borough
66	Leeds	37.3%	Metropolitan borough
67	Medway	37.2%	Unitary council
68	Hillingdon	37.0%	London borough
69	North East Lincolnshire	36.9%	Unitary council
=70	Bedford	36.8%	Unitary council
=70	County Durham	36.8%	Unitary council
72	Hounslow	36.5%	London borough
73	Croydon	36.3%	London borough
74	Swindon	35.7%	Unitary council
75	Halton	35.4%	Unitary council
76	Northumberland	34.8%	Unitary council
77	Thurrock	34.5%	Unitary council
78	Stoke-on-Trent	34.3%	Unitary council
79	Southwark	34.0%	London borough
80	Sefton	33.9%	Metropolitan borough
=81	North Tyneside	33.5%	Metropolitan borough
=81	Waltham Forest	33.5%	London borough
83	Plymouth	33.0%	Unitary council
=84	Brent	32.9%	London borough
=84	Enfield	32.9%	London borough
=84	Islington	32.9%	London borough
87	Wolverhampton	32.7%	Metropolitan borough
=88	Greenwich	32.5%	London borough
=88	Lambeth	32.5%	London borough
90	Walsall	32.3%	Metropolitan borough
91	Coventry	32.0%	Metropolitan borough
92	St. Helens	31.6%	Metropolitan borough
=93	Sunderland	31.1%	Metropolitan borough
=93	Wirral	31.1%	Metropolitan borough
95	Sheffield	31.0%	Metropolitan borough
=96	Bradford	30.9%	Metropolitan borough
=96	Darlington	30.9%	Unitary council
98	Redbridge	30.8%	London borough
=99	Barking and Dagenham	30.7%	London borough
=99	Redcar and Cleveland	30.7%	Unitary council
=101	Harrow	30.6%	London borough
=101	Sandwell	30.6%	Metropolitan borough
103	Gateshead	30.5%	Metropolitan borough
104	Hammersmith and Fulham	30.2%	London borough
105	South Tyneside	30.0%	Metropolitan borough
106	Southampton	29.2%	Unitary council
107	Newham	28.7%	London borough
108	Haringey	28.6%	London borough
109	Knowsley	28.5%	Metropolitan borough
110	Blackburn with Darwen	28.3%	Unitary council
111	Wandsworth	27.9%	London borough
112	Barnet	27.8%	London borough
=113	Brighton and Hove	27.7%	Unitary council
=113	Camden	27.7%	London borough
115	Portsmouth	27.5%	Unitary council
116	Slough	27.4%	Unitary council
117	Lewisham	27.2%	London borough
118	Hartlepool	27.1%	Unitary council
119	Kirklees	27.0%	Metropolitan borough
120	Newcastle upon Tyne	25.9%	Metropolitan borough
121	Luton	25.7%	Unitary council
122	Nottingham	25.3%	Unitary council
123	Hackney	24.7%	London borough
=124	Westminster	24.4%	London borough
=124	Stockton-on-Tees	24.2%	Unitary council
=124	Kensington and Chelsea	22.5%	London borough
=124	Middlesbrough	21.5%	Unitary council
=124	Birmingham	20.3%	Metropolitan borough
=124	Liverpool	17.9%	Metropolitan borough
=124	Tower Hamlets	17.0%	London borough

Period: 2024-25. Source: DEFRA — Local authority collected waste management. Councils with the same figure share a rank, and so do those beyond the 5th and 95th percentiles, because extreme values are capped before scoring (why). How we score

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City of London: 25.5%
Isles of Scilly: 37.4%