Although we are still finding new ways to improve waste collection in Brent, it is worth pausing to look back on how far we have come since 2009/10.
The amount of landfill collected by Brent has fallen by about 15,000 tons per year, which has saved the taxpayer about £1.5 million. That is a better improvement than any of our West London neighbours. Tonnage per household has also slipped downward, and of course the proportion of recycling is much greater at about 43%, compared to about 30% under the Liberal Democrats.
UPDATE
The comment below is factually incorrect. By 2006, when Labour left office last time, Brent's recycling rate was more than 20%. The Liberal Democrats managed to increase it by about 1.5% a year despite much more benign circumstances. The very big increase since 2011 is overwhelmingly down to the introduction of alternate weekly collections, which are used by almost all of the UK's most successful recycling authorities.
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And the 30% achieved under the LibDem administration was, itself, a substantial improvement on the 10% recycling rate achieved under the previous LabLiar administration...
Any comment about the resale value of the co-mingled collection method that produces a far lower quality recycling stream than the previously "sorted at source" recycling stream?
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