Weekly Waste Collection Missed: Colchester Borough Council Performance Data

Colchester Borough Council's corporate indicator K1 W3 tracks missed refuse collections. The waste service makes approximately 306,000 collections per week across four types of refuse and recycling, with a performance target of keeping missed collections below 104 per week. This information is published every six months by the Government Digital Service under an open government license.

Use Cases

• Monitor municipal waste service performance against a target of 104 missed collections per week.
• Analyze trends in missed collection rates, such as the 0.032% weekly average reported for 2014-15.
• Benchmark operational efficiency using the reported total of approximately 306,000 weekly collections.

Strengths

• Includes specific performance targets and historical averages, such as the 94 missed weekly collections in 2014-15.
• Provides clear scale with the figure of approximately 306,000 weekly collections.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Colchester Borough Council, published via Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Likely administrative records from municipal waste collection operations.

Time Range

Includes data from at least the 2014-15 period.

Freshness

Published every six months.

Geography

Colchester Borough, United Kingdom.