Western Riverside Waste Authority
The Western Riverside Waste Authority, as a levying body under the above regulations, provides the following information.
Western Riverside Waste Authority is the statutory waste disposal authority for the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth and Wandsworth, and for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Authority’s waste management policies are led by the waste hierarchy principles of waste reduction, reuse and recycling, with the balance of residual waste being transported from the Authority’s 2 transfer stations via the River Thames to an Energy from Waste Facility on the Thames at Belvedere. The Authority has therefore already achieved the Mayor of London’s 2025 target of zero municipal waste direct to landfill.
The Authority and its constituent councils agreed on a basis of cost apportionment from 2009/10. Under the agreement, which has been extended to run for a further 8 years from 2017/18, the Authority recovers the costs of waste delivered by its constituent councils at a rate per tonne according to the nature of the waste recycled or disposed of. There is a residual annual levy, apportioned on the basis of council tax-base, for overheads and Household Waste and Recycling Centre waste.
The estimated costs to constituent councils for 2025 to 2026 compared to the original budgeted cost in 2024 to 20254 are shown in the table.
| Council | 2025 to 2026 Direct costs £'000 | 2025 to 2026 Levy £'000 | 2025 to 2026 Total costs £'000 |
2024 to 2025 Total Costs £'000 |
Increase / (Decrease) £'000 | Increase / (Decrease) % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 9,498 | 869 | 10,367 | 10,400 | (33) | (0.3%) |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 10,421 | 970 | 11,391 | 10,856 | 535 | 4.9% |
| Lambeth | 16,350 | 1,165 | 17,515 | 16,892 | 623 | 3.7% |
| Wandsworth | 14,287 | 1,443 | 15,730 | 15,506 | 224 | 1.4% |
| Total | 50,556 | 4,447 | 55,003 | 53,654 | 1,349 | 2.5% |
For more information on Western Riverside Waste Authority visit www.wrwa.gov.uk.