Comment by time4tea

You need to be a bit careful about these figures. There can be a big difference between the percentage that is collected and given to a "recycling" company, and the percentage that is a tually recycled. Councils are usually bound to report the former, not the latter. So a council that got its residents to carefully separate the waste, collected it, and then gave it to a recycling company that put it all in a skip and tossed it in a landfill in Nigeria would still get a great recycling percentage.