Recycling has decreased 3.3 percentage points in the waste authority for Hackney
Strictly embargoed 0:00 GMT, Tuesday, 15 October 2024
The waste authority for Hackney is North London Waste Authority. Back in 2015 North London Waste Authority recycled 30.7% of its waste, landfilled 12.9%, and incinerated 56.2%.
By 2023 incineration had increased by 13.8 percentage points to 70%.
Recycling decreased over the same period by 3.3 percentage points to 27.4%. In 2023 0.3% of waste was landfilled.
There are currently 1 years left on a contract with London Energy Limited. The contract has a clawback arrangement: “The income received from energy generation is used to offset LEL’s operating costs and thereby reduce the levy for waste disposal that NLWA must charge its boroughs. As the energy-from-waste facility is wholly publicly owned, NLWA can share any extra income received with the boroughs. In 2022-2023, due to the global rise in energy prices, NLWA was able to provide the boroughs with a £15m rebate.”
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
