Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
London 'the dirty man of Europe'
Not my words but those of the Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling. Their report claims that London has fewer bin collections than any other city.
Weekly collections in London compare to a twice-weekly service in Bucharest, and a daily collection in Paris.
It also shows that London puts 2.2m tonnes of rubbish into landfill more than any city in Europe. Copenhagen's figure is 1%.
Most western European cities burn between 60% and 80% of their rubbish which both produces energy and prevents the damaging greenhouse gas methane from being released from landfill. The UK is yet to widely incinerate rubbish, using the heat to produce electricity.
We do a little better on recycling. Almost a quarter of London's rubbish is currently recycled, more than Paris (19%) or Lisbon (10%). The government's target is for 45% of waste to be recycled by 2015.
Report author Kit Stranger said,
"A mega-city like London would find it difficult to recycle more than 50%. The higher the population of a city the harder it is to get that extra few percentages [of recycling] out of rubbish bins."
"The 45% target by 2015 is going to be challenging.
Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling
Weekly collections in London compare to a twice-weekly service in Bucharest, and a daily collection in Paris.
It also shows that London puts 2.2m tonnes of rubbish into landfill more than any city in Europe. Copenhagen's figure is 1%.
Most western European cities burn between 60% and 80% of their rubbish which both produces energy and prevents the damaging greenhouse gas methane from being released from landfill. The UK is yet to widely incinerate rubbish, using the heat to produce electricity.
We do a little better on recycling. Almost a quarter of London's rubbish is currently recycled, more than Paris (19%) or Lisbon (10%). The government's target is for 45% of waste to be recycled by 2015.
Report author Kit Stranger said,
"A mega-city like London would find it difficult to recycle more than 50%. The higher the population of a city the harder it is to get that extra few percentages [of recycling] out of rubbish bins."
"The 45% target by 2015 is going to be challenging.
Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling
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