Request for tonnages and end destinations of material going into the Hendon transfer station

Thank you for your verbal request of 6 September asking me if we could provide you with details of the tonnage waste flows and end destinations of the material going into the Hendon facility. 

This request is being handled under the Environmental Information Regulations (EiR) 2004 and has been allocated the reference number 2018-16 . 

For the financial year 2017-18 the waste flows into the Hendon site were as follows:

Material coming in: 

Waste type in     Tonnes 

Commingled            14,541

Refuse                  113,955

Food                      1,613

Flytips                          837

Gully sweepings       1,769

Horticultural waste    62

Bulky waste                 1,892

Street cleaning         4352

Material out: 

Waste type out     Tonnes     Destination 

Commingled     14,541    MRF  - Biffa, North London

Refuse    33,041    Energy from Waste – Edmonton, North London

Refuse     38,552    Landfill – Greatmoor, Bucks 

Refuse    51,048    Energy from waste – Greatmoor, Bucks  

Bulky waste     125    Edmonton, North London

Food     1,593    Edmonton IVC and AD in the home counties 

Metal     99    Scrap metal recycling, Barnet, London 

The information on our waste flows is input to the national waste database,  WasteDataFlow, and is finalised and validated once a year. More general information about what happens to our waste is available here: http://wiseuptowaste.org.uk/recycle/what-happens-to-my-recycling/