This is the total weight of all waste the council collected in a year — household waste plus things like street sweepings and some trade waste — in tonnes. Like other raw tonnage figures it mainly reflects the size of the area rather than the quality of the service, and it serves as the divisor in measures like cost per tonne. Summing it across councils needs care, because collection and disposal councils can count the same waste twice.
| name | la_collected_waste_total_tonnes |
|---|---|
| dataset | 12-wastedataflow |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | tonnes/year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | denominator |
| source | LA_and_Regional_Spreadsheet_2024-25.ods, sheet Table_1, column 'Total local authority collected waste (tonnes)'; management route splits (Landfilled, Incineration with EfW, Recycled- Composted, Total2) in Table_2 |
| period | 2014-15 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | Collection authorities have no disposal tonnage responsibility; sum only unitary + disposal authorities for totals (double-counting warning printed in Table_1). |
| score_note | Reliable denominator, but raw tonnage is context and double-counting rules trip users up. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
All local-authority-collected waste including non-household streams, per year. It is the denominator for cost-per-tonne and shows the full scale of the council's waste operation. Management-route splits in Table_2 show where it ends up.