I have recently been sent the league table of London Boroughs recycling record. Brent comes out quite well at joint seventh with Hillingdon at 43%. However, these kind of tables seldom look at the various factors that make the job harder in some areas compared to others. Once you take that into account, I think Brent's performance starts to look very impressive. Some of the areas where Brent struggles are:
1) Brent have a high proportion of flats (53%). That is much higher than any of the seven Boroughs above us, and 13th highest in terms of Boroughs as a whole.
2) Brent has the second highest proportion of households with language problems (after Newham). That has an obvious impact.
Despite this, our record has improved markedly from the less than 30% recycling rate we inherited in 2010.
UPDATE
The figures given are calculated using a standard methodology which excludes contaminated waste. As far as I know, the same methodology is used by all UK authorities.
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The blue bin is more than 3 times larger than the green boxes - obviously the rate would go up but how much is contaminated?
You never give that figure?
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