Refuse collection operations costs and missed bins

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Michael Newberry

Dear Perth and Kinross Council,

Under the Freedom Of Information Act I would like to request the following data:
- The number of households who received refuse waste collections in 2018, 2019 and 2020
- The cost of refuse collection operations for financial years 2018 - 2019, 2019 - 2020 and 2020 - 2021
- The percentage of bins missed during refuse collection rounds in 2018, 2019 and 2020

Yours faithfully,

Michael Newberry

FOI - Generic Email Account, Perth and Kinross Council

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Dear Mr Newberry

 

The Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Request for Information – Refuse Collection

 

I refer to your request for information dated 12 April 2021.

 

The information you requested was:-

 

 1. The number of households who received refuse waste collections in
2018, 2019 and 2020
 2. The cost of refuse collection operations for financial years 2018 -
2019, 2019 - 2020 and 2020 – 2021
 3. The percentage of bins missed during refuse collection rounds in 2018,
2019 and 2020

 

Response

 

 1. Please see table below
 2. £5.7m  for each of the last 3 years
 3. Please see table below

 

 

Year = April to No. collections in
April year Missed Bins Percentage missed
2018- 2019 72,079  2588 0.05%
2019- 2020 72,724 3187 0.06%
2020- 2021 73,473 2684 0.05%
74,081 (As at January
2021 - 2022 2021).    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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