Waste management&disposal LONDON

• How much waste does London generate approximately?

  20 million tonnes PER YEAR
• What are the main destinations for London's bulk waste?

  recycling, incineration as fuel to generate electricity and/or heat buildings, and landfill
• What has happened since 2000?


  Landfill has reduced considerably but in recent years waste reduction and recycling have STAGNATED and further waste diverted from landfill has instead SHIFTED TO INCINERATION
• What does London use barges to do?


  to take waste to landfill sites
• what are used in london to take waste to landfill sites?

  BARGES

  
• What is "Mucky Marsh"?


  a square mile of land in the Thames Estuary has been filled with rubbish.
• how much land in the UK is covered in waste?

  109 square miles
• what is a company doing to reuse?

  picking up rubbish and shipping it back to China to reuse
• Which place had the lowest recycling rate of all the English regions since 2003?


  LONDON!
• there are wide variations in recycling rates between london boroughs
• in general which boroughs have lower recycling rates?


  inner boroughs with many flata