Defra (the Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs) have published the municipal, waste statistics for all local authorities in 2006 / 2007.  Overall, these show that:

• 83% of local authorities collected less household rubbish than in 2005 / 2006.
• 94% of authorities recylced and composted more of their houshold waste then in 2005 / 2006.
• 88% of disposal authorities landfilled less of their municipal waste than in 2005/2006.

Collectively, local authorities have boosted national recycling and composting rates to 31%, and disposed of 1 million tonnes less waste in landfill in 2006/2007, compared to 2005/2006.  These statistics show that many householders and local authoiries have got the "reduce, reuse and recycle" message, and should be congratulated!

But how are Camden doing?

Camden are showing good statistics in comparison with other councils in certain areas, but doing more poorly in others:

• Camden show 100% kerb collection of recycling for more than two materials, compared with some councils who show such collection available for less than 55% of homes, and some councils which do not offer any sort of kerb-side collection.
• Residual waste per head is 241 hh waste per head, which is low compared with some councils where the waste reaches over 400 hh per head.
• Dry recycling is just over 22% which is higher than some councils, but nowhere near the 35% in some boroughs.
• Only 5% of our Greens are being recycled, compared with over 10% in other London boroughs.

You can access the full table of statistics at

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/wastats/archive/mwb200607a.xls#'Table 3'!A1