# Where London's waste goes

> Recycling, incineration, landfill and other treatment as shares of managed tonnage.

- Category: Environment
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `where-londons-waste-goes`
- 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/where-londons-waste-goes](https://londongraph.com/g/where-londons-waste-goes)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-londons-waste-goes](https://londongraph.com/data/where-londons-waste-goes)

## Methodology

London-authority treatment tonnages from Defra's latest annual results, summed then divided by the managed total. Energy recovery remains within the published incineration grouping and is not relabelled as recycling.

## Visualisations

- [Composition](https://londongraph.com/g/where-londons-waste-goes): Recycling, incineration, landfill and other treatment as shares of managed tonnage.
- [Ordered shares](https://londongraph.com/g/where-londons-waste-goes?view=ordered-share): Compare every part on one common 0–100 scale.

## 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.