Request for tonnages and end destinations of material going into the Hendon transfer station

Nature of Request
Geron Way
Case id
55

Response

Response date

Thank you for your verbal request of 6 September asking me if we could provide you with details of the tonnage waste flows and end destinations of the material going into the Hendon facility. 

This request is being handled under the Environmental Information Regulations (EiR) 2004 and has been allocated the reference number 2018-16 . 

For the financial year 2017-18 the waste flows into the Hendon site were as follows:

Material coming in: 
Waste type in     Tonnes 
Commingled            14,541
Refuse                  113,955
Food                      1,613
Flytips                          837
Gully sweepings       1,769
Horticultural waste    62
Bulky waste                 1,892
Street cleaning         4352
Material out: 
Waste type out     Tonnes     Destination 
Commingled     14,541    MRF  - Biffa, North London
Refuse    33,041    Energy from Waste – Edmonton, North London
Refuse     38,552    Landfill – Greatmoor, Bucks 
Refuse    51,048    Energy from waste – Greatmoor, Bucks  
Bulky waste     125    Edmonton, North London
Food     1,593    Edmonton IVC and AD in the home counties 
Metal     99    Scrap metal recycling, Barnet, London 


The information on our waste flows is input to the national waste database,  WasteDataFlow, and is finalised and validated once a year. More general information about what happens to our waste is available here: http://wiseuptowaste.org.uk/recycle/what-happens-to-my-recycling/