London Wider Waste Strategy - London - Greater London Authority

around London but not on the quantities generated. Of course, included in these
figures would be a proportion of commercial and industrial waste that was imported
from outside London for treatment and/or reprocessing or disposal. At the time of
writing, the database was experiencing technical difficulties and access was denied
although, for future purposes, this may be a useful tool to track deposits in London
itself.
4.24. Table 4.4 summarises the transfer stations within London that handle household and
commercial wastes. The numbers of facilities are greatest in the east and west of the
City, with 40 and 35 sites in these sub-regions, albeit the smaller number of facilities
elsewhere in London handle an equivalent amount of waste. Transfer stations are
generally clustered in specific areas known to be close to road and rail transport nodes.
Table 4.4: Household/Commercial Waste Transfer Station Capacity (from
Technical Assessment for Waste Management in London, 2003)
London Plan subregion
Number of sites 1 Capacity (000 tonnes)
Central 15 3,508 (25%)
East 40 5,002 (35%)
North 19 1,024 (7%)
South 15 1,498 (11%)
West 35 3,209 (23%)
Total 124 14,241
1. Sites used as transfer stations licensed to handle commercial and industrial wastes.
4.25. There are only a limited number of operational landfills in London. Table 4.5 indicates
that in 2003 there were ten landfill sites accepting inert wastes and eight accepting
non-inert and other wastes. With the exception of one landfill site in the south, all the
landfill provision is in the east and west of London.
Table 4.5: Landfills in London (from Technical Assessment for Waste
Management in London, April, 2003, Enviros)
London Plan
Sub-region
Noninert/other
Inert Closed/Restoration Total
Central 0 0 0 0
East 4 6 4 14
North 0 0 0 0
South 1 0 1 2
West 3 4 10 17
Total 8 10 15 33
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