Recycling has decreased 8.6 percentage points in the waste authority for Bexley
Strictly embargoed 0:00 GMT, Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Back in 2015 Bexley LB recycled 49.7% of its waste, landfilled 0.2%, and incinerated 50%.
By 2023 incineration had increased by 8.6 percentage points to 58.6%.
Recycling decreased over the same period by 8.6 percentage points to 41.1%. In 2023 0.2% of waste was landfilled.
There are currently 23 years left on a contract with Cory Environmental Limited. The total contract value is £9.56m. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “Yes there are benefits sharing arrangements: the contract includes a fee discount relating to electricity prices and a rebate relating to commercial and industrial waste tonnages. Our view is that further disclosure relating to these arrangements would be adverse to Cory’s legitimate economic interests given the contract is still current and relevant to Cory’s business and competitive position in the market.”
Notes:
- Figures do not always add up to 100% as there is a fourth ‘other’ category.
- In some cases figures total over 100% as it may include waste from the previous year.
- Rounding may also lead to some percentage changes being slightly higher or lower than the difference between the two figures: in this situation please check the full spreadsheet for more detailed figures.
- Some annual returns in Scotland are incomplete comparing 2014 and 2022. This is because, at some authorities, data on incineration was not collected back in 2014. Other authorities have also not submitted an annual return for 2022 in the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) data.
Visualised: how waste processing changed between 2014/15 and 2022/23
