London’s East End is finding itself in last place for the second time when it comes to recycling performance.
Tower Hamlets has officially become the worst borough in London for composting garden waste. It had earlier come in at the bottom of the list in the capital in regard to recycling of household waste.
Earlier in the month, government figures placed Tower Hamlets below all other local authority households – throughout England – for household recycling performance, for the second consecutive year.
Its poor performance has now moved to the garden, as figures released this week show Tower Hamlets as composting less than one per cent of its garden waste. According to the Environmental Department, the number is actually 0.15 per cent.
“This shows an opening gulf between the best and worst London boroughs,” said Darren Johnson of the London Assembly. “All the evidence shows that Londoners want to recycle more—but they’re being let down by Tower Hamlets which is failing to run doorstep collection services for all residents.”
The timing of the release of the embarrassing statistics is unfortunate, coming just a week after Tower Hamlets launched ‘Mr Recycle More,’ a recycling effort involving 33 regurgitated purple recycling bins.
Since its last place finish in household recycling was announced, the local authority has managed to double its performance rating, to 13 per cent, but it remains at the bottom of the heap on the country’s local authority table for the second consecutive year.
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