Forest of Dean District Council

Forest of Dean District

Demographic Information

GSSCode: E07000080

Authority Type: DIS[1]

Country: England

Region: South West

Disposal Authority: Gloucestershire County Council

Population[2] 86,543
Land Area (ha)[3] 57,106.34
Population per ha 1.52

Key Metrics

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) 52.4 48
Collected household waste per person (kg/pp) (Ex BVPI 84a) 376.2 222

Unranked Metrics

Metric Indicator
Local Authority Collected and Household Waste Statistics
Local Authority Collected Waste
  Total Waste (tonnes) 33,478
    • Sent for recycling-composting-reuse (tonnes) 17,886
    • Not sent for recycling (tonnes) 15,593
  Estimated rejects (tonnes) 378
Household
  Total waste (tonnes) 33,401
  Waste sent for recycling-composting-reuse (tonnes) 17,508
    • Dry recycling-reuse (tonnes) 8,181
    • Green recycling-reuse (tonnes) 9,326
  Waste not sent for recycling (tonnes) 15,894
    • Regular collection (not recycled) (tonnes) 14,750
    • Civic amenity sites (not recycled) (tonnes) 0
    • Other sources (not recycled) (tonnes) 765
    Estimated rejects (tonnes) 378
Non-Household
  Total waste (tonnes) 77
    • Waste sent for recycling-composting-reuse (tonnes) 378
    • Waste not sent for recycling (tonnes) −301
  Estimated rejects (tonnes) 0
Management of Local Authority Collected Waste
  To Landfill (tonnes) 0
  To Incineration with Energy from Waste (tonnes) 0
  To Incineration without Energy from Waste (tonnes) 0
  To Recycled - Composted (tonnes) 0
  To Other Routes (tonnes) 0
  Input to intermediate plants (tonnes) 0
Government Metrics - Selected Waste Indicators
  Residual household waste per household (kg/household) (Ex NI191) 395.6
  Percentage of municipal waste sent to landfill (%) (Ex NI193) 0.0


Collections Contract Information[4]

Collection Arrangements

Primary[5]

Residual Collection: Fortnightly

Dry Recycleables: Weekly : Separate

  • Method of Segregation[6]: To be completed by Local Authority

Green Waste: Fortnightly : Separate : Charged

Food Waste: Weekly : Separate

Secondary[7]

Residual Collection: To be completed by Authority

Dry Recycleables: To be completed by Authority

  • Method of Segregation[6]: To be completed by Authority

Green Waste: To be completed by Authority

Food Waste: To be completed by Authority

Contract Arrangements

Residual Waste Collection: OutSourced (Ubico)

Mixed Recycling Collections: OutSourced (Ubico)

Organic Waste Collection: OutSourced (Ubico)

Food Waste Collection: OutSourced (Ubico)

Duration of Contract: Ongoing/rolling

Contract Start Date: 2024

Approximate Value: £U/K

Comments

New contract with Ubico started in Jul 2024[8].


Destination Information

Significant Tonnage Summary[9]

Data comes from WasteDataFlow for the period Apr21 - Mar22.

Stream Facility Operator Address Material Tonnes
Food waste Anaerobic or Aerobic Digestion Segregated Andgestion Ltd. Wingmoor Farm East AD Facility, Stoke Road, Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Waste food only 2748.48
Green waste Windrow or other composting M F Bennion ( Potatoes ) Ltd Rosehill Farm, Dymock, Ledbury, Gloucestershire Green garden waste only 7699.23
Source segregated recyclate Exporter - recycling (qu19) Other/Exempt Aston House, 3 Springfield Industrial Estate, Newport, Shropshire TF10 7NB Mixed paper & card 4105.40
Source segregated recyclate Reprocessor - recycling (qu19) Reuse Glass Uk Ltd Headlands Lane, Knottingley, West Yorkshire Mixed glass 2785.58

For further destination information see Disposal Authority (Gloucestershire County Council.)

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. Data initially populated from propriatory database.
  5. These arrangements are for the primary arrangements in an area. Primary is defined as the arrangements given to the most households in an area.
  6. 6.0 6.1 This should detail the Kerbside Collection Scheme operated by the LA e.g. co-mingled, twin stream or source segregated.
  7. Due to the diverse nature of housing stock within a local authority's juristriction most LAs operate secondary collection arrangements to accommodate for this difference in housing e.g. houses, flats etc
  8. https://news.fdean.gov.uk/news/forest-of-dean-district-council-awards-new-waste-contract-to-ubico
  9. Tonnages under 2000 tonnes have been screened out.