Leicester City Council provides waste diversion rates for Leicester City. The data includes the total percentage of waste diverted from landfill through recycling, reuse, composting, and refuse-derived fuel for energy recovery. A note indicates operational issues in the 2017/18 financial year affected compost production.
Use Cases
- Benchmark municipal waste diversion performance based on reported total diversion percentage.
- Analyze the impact of operational disruptions on waste processing outcomes based on the note about plant breakdowns.
- Model trends in recycling, composting, and energy recovery for urban sustainability planning.
Strengths
- Data is provided by the authoritative local government body, Leicester City Council.
- Description provides specific context about a data anomaly in the 2017/18 financial year.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified as the last metadata update was 2026-06-17.
Provenance
- Source
- Leicester City Council
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 11:36:04.566577
- Geography
- Leicester City, UK