Municipal Waste Management Strategy for County Durham

Figure 5.1 Breakdown of Recycling by Collection Method: 2004/05 to 2008/09
Durham County recycling and composting arisings
(tonnes)
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
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Figure 5.1 indicates the following:
• Materials collected by household kerbside and third party collection have
increased steadily since 2004/05. This is to be expected given the
additional collection services provided since this year.
• Materials deposited at HWRCs for recycling and composting decreased
dramatically between 2004/05 and 2005/6. As noted in Section 3.2.5, this
corresponds to the introduction of the Waste Permit Scheme (see also
Section 2.1.3) which prevents the depositing of commercial waste at
HWRCs. The amounts of waste recycled and composted from HWRCs
appear to have stabilised since then.
5.3 BEST VALUE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09
WCA kerbside recycling WCA kerbside composting Third party recycling
Third party composting Bring sites recycling HWRC recycling
HWRC composting
The data in the following table presents Durham County Council’s
performance to date in relation to the former BVPIs.
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