The satistics show how individual local authorities are contributing to national goals to reduce waste, recycle more and landfill less:
• 83 per cent of local authorities collected less household rubbish (residual waste) than in 2005/06;
• 94 per cent of authorities recycled and composted more of their household waste than in 2005/06; and
• 88 per cent of disposal authorities landfilled less of their municipal waste than in 2005/06.
The South West region's household recycling rate was second highest in England for 2006/7 at 37.2 per cent, up from 31.4 per cent in 2005/6. In 2006/7 South Somerset District Council had the lowest collected residual household waste per head of English local authorities at 180 kilograms per person.
The municipal waste management statistics can be found on the Defra website by clicking on the link below.
