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Residual household waste per household

Lower 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 516 kg.

Ex NI191.

Residual household waste per household by council
Rank	Council	Residual household waste per household	Type
=1	Ealing	263 kg	London borough
=1	Islington	284 kg	London borough
=1	Stockport	294 kg	Metropolitan borough
=1	Lambeth	303 kg	London borough
=1	Salford	308 kg	Metropolitan borough
=1	Trafford	310 kg	Metropolitan borough
=1	Camden	329 kg	London borough
8	Milton Keynes	338 kg	Unitary council
9	Hammersmith and Fulham	342 kg	London borough
10	Bury	351 kg	Metropolitan borough
11	Bolton	357 kg	Metropolitan borough
12	Tameside	358 kg	Metropolitan borough
13	Bath and North East Somerset	367 kg	Unitary council
14	Dorset	368 kg	Unitary council
15	North Somerset	370 kg	Unitary council
16	Wokingham	378 kg	Unitary council
17	Reading	379 kg	Unitary council
18	Rochdale	380 kg	Metropolitan borough
19	South Gloucestershire	386 kg	Unitary council
20	Manchester	395 kg	Metropolitan borough
21	East Riding of Yorkshire	397 kg	Unitary council
22	Kensington and Chelsea	404 kg	London borough
23	Oldham	416 kg	Metropolitan borough
24	Cheshire West and Chester	416 kg	Unitary council
25	Bromley	419 kg	London borough
26	Bracknell Forest	419 kg	Unitary council
27	Bristol, City of	423 kg	Unitary council
28	Brent	423 kg	London borough
29	Bexley	426 kg	London borough
30	Wandsworth	428 kg	London borough
31	Somerset	428 kg	Unitary council
32	Rutland	434 kg	Unitary council
33	Wigan	443 kg	Metropolitan borough
34	Kingston upon Hull, City of	448 kg	Unitary council
35	Westmorland and Furness	449 kg	Unitary council
36	Kingston upon Thames	449 kg	London borough
37	Rotherham	459 kg	Metropolitan borough
38	Southwark	469 kg	London borough
39	Sutton	470 kg	London borough
40	Isle of Wight	470 kg	Unitary council
41	Barnsley	471 kg	Metropolitan borough
42	Dudley	475 kg	Metropolitan borough
43	West Berkshire	481 kg	Unitary council
44	Windsor and Maidenhead	483 kg	Unitary council
45	Calderdale	484 kg	Metropolitan borough
46	Cumberland	485 kg	Unitary council
47	Richmond upon Thames	486 kg	London borough
48	Sheffield	487 kg	Metropolitan borough
49	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	487 kg	Unitary council
50	Hackney	488 kg	London borough
51	Westminster	489 kg	London borough
52	Herefordshire, County of	491 kg	Unitary council
53	Wakefield	492 kg	Metropolitan borough
54	Merton	496 kg	London borough
55	Cornwall	497 kg	Unitary council
56	Lewisham	502 kg	London borough
57	York	503 kg	Unitary council
58	Cheshire East	504 kg	Unitary council
59	St. Helens	506 kg	Metropolitan borough
60	Doncaster	508 kg	Metropolitan borough
61	Buckinghamshire	510 kg	Unitary council
62	Shropshire	511 kg	Unitary council
63	Torbay	511 kg	Unitary council
64	Tower Hamlets	513 kg	London borough
65	Haringey	514 kg	London borough
66	Leeds	518 kg	Metropolitan borough
67	Blackpool	519 kg	Unitary council
68	North Northamptonshire	520 kg	Unitary council
69	Warrington	522 kg	Unitary council
70	Leicester	525 kg	Unitary council
71	Croydon	528 kg	London borough
72	Southend-on-Sea	529 kg	Unitary council
73	Hounslow	531 kg	London borough
74	Derby	531 kg	Unitary council
75	Hillingdon	532 kg	London borough
76	Solihull	534 kg	Metropolitan borough
77	North Lincolnshire	535 kg	Unitary council
78	Coventry	538 kg	Metropolitan borough
79	Sefton	538 kg	Metropolitan borough
80	Greenwich	538 kg	London borough
81	Wiltshire	539 kg	Unitary council
82	Portsmouth	540 kg	Unitary council
83	North Yorkshire	540 kg	Unitary council
84	Wirral	542 kg	Metropolitan borough
85	Swindon	542 kg	Unitary council
86	Brighton and Hove	544 kg	Unitary council
87	West Northamptonshire	545 kg	Unitary council
88	Stoke-on-Trent	545 kg	Unitary council
89	North Tyneside	546 kg	Metropolitan borough
90	Telford and Wrekin	549 kg	Unitary council
91	Enfield	550 kg	London borough
92	Redcar and Cleveland	552 kg	Unitary council
93	Waltham Forest	556 kg	London borough
94	Plymouth	563 kg	Unitary council
95	Nottingham	566 kg	Unitary council
96	Southampton	567 kg	Unitary council
97	Central Bedfordshire	567 kg	Unitary council
98	Newcastle upon Tyne	567 kg	Metropolitan borough
99	County Durham	571 kg	Unitary council
100	South Tyneside	575 kg	Metropolitan borough
101	North East Lincolnshire	575 kg	Unitary council
=102	Peterborough	582 kg	Unitary council
=102	Sunderland	582 kg	Metropolitan borough
104	Darlington	584 kg	Unitary council
105	Bradford	587 kg	Metropolitan borough
106	Medway	589 kg	Unitary council
107	Knowsley	589 kg	Metropolitan borough
108	Wolverhampton	591 kg	Metropolitan borough
109	Havering	592 kg	London borough
110	Slough	593 kg	Unitary council
111	Bedford	593 kg	Unitary council
112	Liverpool	594 kg	Metropolitan borough
113	Thurrock	599 kg	Unitary council
114	Gateshead	599 kg	Metropolitan borough
115	Kirklees	603 kg	Metropolitan borough
116	Hartlepool	604 kg	Unitary council
117	Northumberland	604 kg	Unitary council
118	Blackburn with Darwen	615 kg	Unitary council
119	Halton	624 kg	Unitary council
120	Sandwell	635 kg	Metropolitan borough
121	Redbridge	636 kg	London borough
122	Barnet	637 kg	London borough
123	Harrow	640 kg	London borough
=124	Walsall	647 kg	Metropolitan borough
=124	Newham	660 kg	London borough
=124	Birmingham	666 kg	Metropolitan borough
=124	Barking and Dagenham	698 kg	London borough
=124	Stockton-on-Tees	702 kg	Unitary council
=124	Luton	715 kg	Unitary council
=124	Middlesbrough	721 kg	Unitary council

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: 337 kg
Isles of Scilly: 877 kg