Request
hello, please disregard this foi request if your council doesn’t handle recycling centre’s (tips). i am writing to you under the freedom of information act 2000 to request the following information:
in the years below, how much waste was collected at your recycling centre's (tips) in tonnes.
2020: 2021: 2022: (if possible) 2023:
please can you also provide a breakdown for each waste type below, in tonnes, for the years above.
car batteries
cardboard
garden waste
hardcore, rubble, soil and plasterboard
mattresses
mixed textiles and clothes
mobile phones
paper
plastics
scrap metal
used engine oil
wood and timber
plea se provide the information in the form of an excel spreadsheet. if it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the section 16 obligations of the act, as to how i can refine my request. if you can identify any ways that my request could be refined i would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
Response
Further to our email acknowledging your Environmental Information Regulations request (reference 2023-219), our response is as follows.
You requested information on the waste types collected at our Reuse and Recycling Centres (RRCs).
Through our contractors, North London Waste Authority (NLWA) runs RRCs at the following locations:
- Summers Lane, North Finchley
- Regis Road, Kentish Town
- Western Road, Haringey
- Hornsey Street, Islington
- Kings Road, Waltham Forest
- Gateway Road, Leyton
- South Access Road, Walthamstow
These sites are run by NLWA’s wholly owned company, LondonEnergy Ltd, except for Gateway Road, which is run by Bywaters.
NLWA also disposes of waste for the London Borough of Enfield, but do not run their RRC at Barrowell Green in Winchmore Hill. The Barrowell Green site is therefore out of scope for your request.
Attached are three spreadsheets containing data on the waste collected at the RRCs we run:
- An export from our Waste Data Management System (WDMS), which includes tonnages from all the RRCs run by LondonEnergy Ltd
- A spreadsheet showing data from Bywaters about waste collected at the Gateway Road RRC
- A spreadsheet showing data on WEEE collected by ERP, our WEEE services provider
The way we categorise our tonnage data does not align to the categories included in your request, but all your categories are covered.
The spreadsheet containing data from ERP uses several abbreviations which may need explanation. These are listed below:
- LDA: Large Domestic Appliances
- COLD: fridges and freezers
- CRT: Cathode Ray Tubes – this abbreviation is used to refer to televisions
- SDA: Small Domestic Appliances
We are in the process of upgrading our WDMS, as set out in this recent report to our Members, and it will soon include consolidated data from Bywaters and ERP in addition to data from LondonEnergy Ltd.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may ask for an internal review, which should be submitted within two months of when you received our response to either informationrequests@nlwa.gov.uk or enquiry form quoting the above reference.
If you are not content with the outcome of the review, you may complain to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or via their online portal. The Information Commissioner will not usually accept complaints before a review has been completed.
