Dear Ms Gamble

Thank you for email of 18 September received by North London Waste
Authority on 18 September and entitled

‘Freedom of Information request - Christmas tree recycling’.

This email is to acknowledge receipt of your request. I apologise for my
delayed response. Your request has been

allocated the reference number 2018-09 and is being handled under the
Environmental Information

Regulations (EiR) 2004*. It will be answered within twenty working days.

If you have any queries about this request please do not hesitate to
contact me. We would be grateful if

you could quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely

Barbara Herridge

* Given the nature of our activities and the fact that environmental
information is interpreted quite broadly

we generally answer information requests under the Environmental
Information Regulations rather than the

Freedom of Information Act. Further detail is available at:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...

Barbara Herridge

External Relations Manager

North London Waste Authority

Unit 1B, Berol House

25 Ashley Road

Tottenham Hale

London N17 9LJ

Tel: 020 8489 5654

[mobile number]

Email: [1][email address]

Websites: nlwa.gov.uk  wiseuptowaste.org.uk

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Request ref: 2018-09

                           4 October 2018 

FAO: Ms C Gamble

Dear Ms Gamble,

RE: Information Request – Ref. 2018-09

Thank you for your request of 18 September entitled ‘Freedom of
Information request - Christmas tree recycling’

Your request was for the following information:

How many real Christmas trees were thrown out and collected from
households in your authority after Christmas 2017?

Did you carry out this service in-house or did you outsource it?

How much did it cost to carry out this service?

NLWA Response

This request is being handled under the Environmental Information
Regulations (EiR) 2004 and has been allocated the reference number
2018-09[2]^^[1]. In response to your questions please find below the
following information:

North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is the waste disposal authority for
seven boroughs – Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and
Waltham Forest. As such, we do not collect the waste from north London
households – our role is to process it. Consequently we do not hold any
information about how many real Christmas trees were thrown out and
collected from households across north London after Christmas 2017.

We do not hold any information about whether the collection of real
Christmas trees was carried out in-house by boroughs or outsourced and we
have no information about the cost of this service. Accordingly this
response acts as a refusal notice under the EiR - Regulation 12 (4): (a)
The Authority does not hold the information.

We apologise that your request will not be met but if you have any further
information needs in the future then please contact us.

You have the right of appeal about our response and if you wish to appeal
please look at our website
[3]http://www.nlwa.gov.uk/governance-and-ac...
scrolling down the section entitled ‘ what happens if I am not happy?’ for
further guidance.

Yours sincerely,

Barbara Herridge

External Relations Manager

^^[1] Given the nature of our activities and the fact that environmental
information is interpreted quite broadly we now generally answer
information requests under the Environmental Information Regulations
rather than the Freedom of Information Act. Further detail is available
at: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/...

Barbara Herridge

External Relations Manager

North London Waste Authority

Unit 1B, Berol House

25 Ashley Road

Tottenham Hale

London N17 9LJ

Tel: 020 8489 5654

[mobile number]

Email: [4][email address]

Websites: nlwa.gov.uk  wiseuptowaste.org.uk

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