# Recycling by borough

> Household recycling rates, with residual waste per person retained alongside them.

- Category: Environment
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `recycling-by-borough`
- Source: [Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/recycling-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/recycling-by-borough)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/recycling-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/data/recycling-by-borough)

## Methodology

Latest Defra local-authority-collected waste annual generation workbook. The household recycling rate ranks London authorities; residual kilograms per person remains in observation metadata rather than being mistaken for the same measure.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/recycling-by-borough): Household recycling rates, with residual waste per person retained alongside them.
- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/recycling-by-borough?view=geography): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/recycling-by-borough?view=distribution): Place every mapped area in the selected measure's distribution while preserving missing values.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.