How much the council spends on the everyday street-level services: collecting rubbish and recycling, disposing of it, and keeping streets clean. These are the most comparable services councils run — everyone has bins — so they are good territory for spotting genuinely expensive or cheap operators. Raw totals track council size, though; the fair comparison is cost per tonne or per household against similar councils.
| name | waste-service-lines |
|---|---|
| dataset | 01-revenue-outturn |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 per year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | "data/Revenue_Outturn_time_series_data_v3.2.csv, columns `RO5_envcll_net_cur_exp` (collection), `RO5_envdsp_net_cur_exp` (disposal), `RO5_envrcy_net_cur_exp` (recycling), `RO5_envstr_net_cur_exp` (street cleansing)" |
| period | "FY 2017-18 to 2024-25, annual (year_ending 201803-202503)" |
| missingness | "Rows with status other than "submitted" (i.e. "total" aggregates and "not submitted") must be filtered out; a non-submitted council-year is a genuine gap, not zero. 2024-25 covers 410/411 councils. Councils abolished/created in 2017-25 reorganisations appear only for the years they existed." |
| score_note | Comparable universal-service spend lines, but the per-tonne unit cost carries the efficiency verdict; this is its feed. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Net current spend on waste collection, disposal, recycling and street cleansing. These are universal, comparable services and therefore the best like-for-like unit-cost candidates; they feed waste-cost-per-tonne with 12-wastedataflow. Note collection and disposal sit with different tiers in two-tier areas, so compare within LA_class.