Only three London boroughs are meeting their recycling targets, according to figures obtained by BBC London. Councils are all meant to be recycling 45% of their waste, but the overwhelming majority are failing to do so. Our environment correspondent Tom Edwards reports in the first part of our series on how we deal with the city’s rubbish.

London’s rubbish problem: Recycling


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