BRACKNELL Forest is among the ten least wasteful towns in England, according to a study.
The Bower Collective, which sells reusable and refillable household items, compared over 100 places in England to find their “wasteful scores”.
Bracknell ranked joint ninth with Watford - having produced 394 kg of household waste per person per year, 2 per cent less than the English average.
This looked at factors such as recycling rates, household waste, and fly-tipping incidents between 2019-20 and compared them to 2014-15.
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In this period Bracknell has seen a 5 per cent decrease in household waste and a 3 per cent increase in recycling rates.
However, there was also a 42 per cent increase in fly tipping.
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London as a whole reduced their household waste by 42 per cent.
Stroud ranked as the UK’s least wasteful while Nottingham in the East Midlands was the most.
A Bower Collective survey also found that one third of people admitted that their recycling habits “could be better”.
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