Recycling has decreased 1.8 percentage points in the waste authority for Kingston upon Thames
Strictly embargoed 0:00 GMT, Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Back in 2015 Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames recycled 47.8% of its waste, landfilled 15.8%, and incinerated 36.5%.
By 2023 incineration had increased by 17.2 percentage points to 53.6%.
Recycling decreased over the same period by 1.8 percentage points to 46%. In 2023 0.1% of waste was landfilled.
The waste authority for Kingston upon Thames is South London Waste Partnership. There are currently 19 years left on a contract with Viridor. The total contract value is £990m.
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
