Exeter City Council’s recycling rate was ranked among the bottom tenth of councils in England which collect household waste last year.
According to government figures just 29% of the household waste it collected was sent for recycling, compared with 54% by neighbouring Teignbridge District Council and 60% by East Devon District Council, which was among the best-performing councils in the country on this metric.
Exeter’s residual waste performance was better than North Devon, Plymouth and Torbay councils, but East Devon recorded the lowest residual waste rate of all.
