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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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