Our Performance

How is my local authority area performing?

The table below shows you how much household waste each council managed in 2008/09, how much of it was recycled, composted or sent to landfill. Thanks to everybody's efforts, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are performing really well with an average of over 50% of household waste being recycled and composted across the partnership.

However, far more can be done to raise recycling and composting rates in the area. Local studies on household waste have revealed that 28% of the waste that households in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough put out as residual waste (waste that cannot be recycled or composted), could actually be recycled or composted.

List of Partner Councils and their household waste recycling performance figures for 2008/09, shown as approximate tonnes and percentage of total household waste

Partner	Recycled	Composted	Recycled and composted	Land filled	Total amount of household waste
Cambridge City Council	7,388 16.95%	10,611 24.35%	17,999 41.30%	25,581 58.70%	43,580
Cambridgeshire County Council (recycling centres only)	19,740 38.59%	10,028 19.60%	29,768 58.19%	21,386 41.81%	51,156
East Cambridgeshire District Council	4,952 17.09%	5,680 19.60%	10,632 36.69%	18,346 63.31%	28,978
Fenland District Council	8,672 21.60%	11,826 29.45%	20,498 51.05%	19,182 47.78%	39,680
Huntingdonshire District Council	18,668 26.30%	21,903 30.86%	40,571 57.17%	29,385 41.41%	69,956
South Cambridgeshire District	11,106 18.93%	20,382 34.74%	31,488 53.67%	27,186 46.33%	58,674
Peterborough City Council	20,598 22.67%	23,056 25.37%	43,655 48.04%	47,211 51.96%	90,865
Total Partnership	91,125 23.17%	103,486 26.92%	194,611 50.63%	188,277 48.98%	382,888