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Table 1 Percent of local authorities and disruption in waste collection by type of service during initial Covid-19 lockdown (Week of 30 March, 2020).

From: Illegal waste fly-tipping in the Covid-19 pandemic: enhanced compliance, temporal displacement, and urban–rural variation

 

Type of waste collection

Recycling (%)

Garden (%)

Food (%)

Bulky (%)

Clinical (%)

Residual

Operating normally

73

41

63

19

88

83%

Minor disruption

20

12

18

12

9

15%

Moderate disruption

4

8

8

3

3

2%

Severely disrupted

2

1

1

3

0

0

Services withdrawn

1

38

9

65

0

0

  1. ‘Residual’ waste is that which is not covered in the other categories