Cumbria County Council

Cumbria County

Demographic Information

GSSCode: E10000006

Authority Type: CTY[1]

Country: England

Region: North West

Disposal Authority: Cumbria County Council

Population[2] 498,375
Land Area (ha)[3] 718,276.4
Population per ha 0.694

Key Metrics

Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC)

Metric Indicator
Number of HWRC(s) 14
Population per HWRC 35,598
Land Area per HWRC 51,305.46

Authority Reported Metrics

For reporting period (Financial Year April to March): 2022-23


Ranked Metrics

Metric Indicator Ranking
Percentage of household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting (%) (Ex NI192) 50.7 62
Collected household waste per person (kg/pp) (Ex BVPI 84a) 466.0 328

Unranked Metrics

Metric Indicator
Local Authority Collected and Household Waste Statistics
Local Authority Collected Waste
  Total Waste (tonnes) 256,115
    • Sent for recycling-composting-reuse (tonnes) 130,522
    • Not sent for recycling (tonnes) 125,593
  Estimated rejects (tonnes) 2,752
Household
  Total waste (tonnes) 233,988
  Waste sent for recycling-composting-reuse (tonnes) 118,643
    • Dry recycling-reuse (tonnes) 65,533
    • Green recycling-reuse (tonnes) 53,110
  Waste not sent for recycling (tonnes) 115,345
    • Regular collection (not recycled) (tonnes) 86,429
    • Civic amenity sites (not recycled) (tonnes) 15,545
    • Other sources (not recycled) (tonnes) 10,620
    Estimated rejects (tonnes) 2,752
Non-Household
  Total waste (tonnes) 22,128
    • Waste sent for recycling-composting-reuse (tonnes) 11,880
    • Waste not sent for recycling (tonnes) 10,248
  Estimated rejects (tonnes) 0
Management of Local Authority Collected Waste
  To Landfill (tonnes) 34,629
  To Incineration with Energy from Waste (tonnes) 574
  To Incineration without Energy from Waste (tonnes) 44,586
  To Recycled - Composted (tonnes) 130,522
  To Other Routes (tonnes) 45,251
  Input to intermediate plants (tonnes) 114,059
Government Metrics - Selected Waste Indicators
  Residual household waste per household (kg/household) (Ex NI191) 456.5
  Percentage of municipal waste sent to landfill (%) (Ex NI193) 13.5


Destination Information

Significant Tonnage Summary[4]

Data comes from WasteDataFlow for the period Apr21 - Mar22.

Stream Facility Operator Address Material Tonnes
Green waste Windrow or other composting A W Jenkinson Woodwaste Ltd Hespin Wood Landfill Site, Todhills, Carlisle, Cumbria Green garden waste only 3948.87
Residual waste Mechanical Biological treatment Shanks Waste Management Ltd Northern Resource Park, Hespin Wood, Carlisle NA 65361.94
Residual waste Mechanical Biological treatment Shanks Waste Management Ltd Sowerby Wood Resource Park, Bouthwood Road, Sowerby Wood Industrial Estate NA 55733.99
Residual waste Non-hazardous landfill Cumbria Waste Management Ltd Hespin Wood Landfill Site, Todhills, Carlisle, Cumbria NA 9602.20
Residual waste Non-hazardous landfill Lakeland Waste Management Flusco Landfill Site, Newbiggin, Nr Penrith, Cumbria NA 8268.45
Residual waste Non-hazardous landfill WRG Waste Services Ltd Bennett Bank Landfill Site, Thwaite Flat, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria NA 4875.58
Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Cumbria Waste Management Ltd - Hespin Woods MRF Hespin Woods Landfill, Todhills, Carlisle, Cumbria Rubble 10171.16
Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Other/Exempt 14 HWRC where the wood waste is collected and segregated. Wood 8846.91
Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Morcambe Metals Ltd Whitegate, White Lund Industrial Estate, Morecambe, Lancashire Other Scrap metal 2820.21
Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Morcambe Metals Ltd Whitegate, White Lund Industrial Estate, Morecambe, Lancashire WEEE - Large Domestic App 2820.21
Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Tony Brown Aggregates Limited Diamond Yard, Pennington Lane, Lindal In Furness, Cumbria Rubble 2588.76

References

  1. Authority Type Abreviations:
    • UTA - Unitary Authority
    • DIS - District
    • MTD - Metropolitan District
    • LBO - London Borough
    • CTY - County Council
  2. Source: ONS mid 2018 projection
  3. Source: Ordnance Survey boundry line data 2019
  4. Tonnages under 2000 tonnes have been screened out.