Cheshire West and Chester council has been named by Eunomia as the best in the UK for reducing carbon emissions through its recycling services in 2018/19.
The report assessed each councils contribution to reducing emissions
The eighth edition of Eunomia’s annual Recycling Cabon Index, published 1 December, showed that Cheshire West and Chester council saved 120kg of Co2 emissions per capita in 2018/19.
The environmental consultancy said Cheshire West and Chester council’s improved performance, which jumped up from 108kg in 2017/18, was largely due to a 3% increase in kerbside collected recycling material.
More than half of the additional material was dry recycling.
Despite Cheshire West & Chester’s success, the report showed that England’s overall performance continued to “stagnate”, as carbon emissions avoided through recycling increased only slightly to 69kg CO2e per capita.
Northern Ireland continued its improvement on the Carbon Index, increasing the amount of CO2eq saved by 3.4% to 82.2kg per capita, with a recycling rate increase of 2.1% to 48.1%.
Meanwhile, Wales remained the best performing country with an average saving of 93.6 kg CO2e per capita.
The Carbon Index uses “up-to-date waste data” to calculate the carbon emissions avoided through each local authority recycling scheme, “providing an alternative metric to traditional weight-based recycling measurements”.
Consistent
Councillor Karen Shore, deputy leader and cabinet member for environment, highways and strategic transport at Cheshire West & Chester Council, said: “We are only achieving such high recycling figures because residents are continuing to support recycling across the borough. By separating our waste at source, it’s paid dividends by producing carbon savings.”
Rankings
After Cheshire West and Chester in the rankings was Gloucestershire, Dorset, Devon and Bexley.
Of the bottom five councils in the report, three were in London.
Lewisham was ranked at the bottom of the list, with Newham, Nottingham, Southwark and Birmingham rounding off the bottom five.
The full report can be found here.
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