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Waste management performance indicators The City of Edinburgh Council Scottish average
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Gross cost of refuse collection per premise £61.99 £52.59
Gross cost of refuse disposal per premise £53.33 £58.43
% of bulky domestic refuse requests completed within 5 working days 35.8 78.8
Number of refuse collection complaints per 1,000 households 36.8 28.8
% of household waste collected that was used for recovery of heat, power and other energy sources 0 2.2
% of household waste collected that was composted by the authority 2.1 2.9
% of household waste collected that was disposed of by other recycling or recovery methods 10 9.7

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