Scotland's People: Annual Report 2005/2006

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Table 7.39: Reasons for not recycling by local authority

Row percentages, 2005/2006 data
Households

No facilities available

Don't know/never thought about it

Facilities too far away

Too much mess/bother

Do not use enough/not enough to be worth it

Don't know where facilities are

Cannot transport materials to recycling depot

Nowhere to store at home

Not interested/
waste of time

Council doesn't do separate
collection/stopped/
should do

Normally do - not taken it this month

Not able to/too old/ill

Re-use

No time

Other

Base

Aberdeen City

31

15

8

11

8

5

11

8

4

3

1

2

-

2

0

309

Aberdeenshire

20

23

15

11

11

2

7

5

6

3

3

1

1

2

0

236

Angus

39

8

18

18

13

2

-

11

8

8

1

-

1

-

101

Argyll and Bute

33

18

12

10

8

3

4

9

5

1

1

1

-

3

1

125

Clackmannanshire

45

13

2

13

2

3

2

20

15

2

-

-

-

57

Dumfries and Galloway

28

21

17

10

12

2

5

3

5

-

1

1

3

3

1

124

Dundee City

55

3

11

5

13

3

5

8

7

1

1

1

-

0

1

352

East Ayrshire

16

18

6

7

13

2

10

8

10

5

5

2

-

-

-

44

East Dunbartonshire

39

7

8

10

18

-

7

-

7

1

1

2

1

1

3

68

East Lothian

32

11

11

9

14

6

3

15

9

7

1

4

-

-

-

85

East Renfrewshire

57

9

3

9

7

1

1

4

8

3

1

-

-

-

2

134

Edinburgh City

49

11

12

11

5

5

6

5

6

1

1

1

-

1

1

656

Eilean Siar

14

28

11

7

4

3

27

3

4

1

1

0

-

0

1

212

Falkirk

44

17

11

2

9

3

2

2

6

9

5

-

2

2

124

Fife

33

9

10

12

10

4

7

12

20

2

2

1

-

1

4

200

Glasgow City

72

10

7

5

3

9

6

6

3

0

0

1

-

0

1

1,464

Highland

20

16

22

8

15

8

8

4

8

1

0

0

0

0

1

278

Inverclyde

65

12

12

5

3

5

1

2

1

-

2

1

-

1

-

110

Midlothian

48

23

9

9

-

1

2

7

4

-

1

1

-

-

-

102

Moray

24

12

28

14

9

1

10

11

7

2

1

-

2

-

112

North Ayrshire

23

18

7

14

16

1

4

8

4

3

2

3

-

3

3

137

North Lanarkshire

50

8

5

12

7

4

1

2

14

7

0

1

0

1

1

443

Orkney

24

1

29

14

16

5

5

6

6

0

5

1

-

-

0

166

Perth and Kinross

43

13

12

7

3

4

4

2

17

-

6

1

-

-

1

86

Renfrewshire

59

11

2

14

3

0

2

5

8

-

1

0

-

1

0

263

Scottish Borders

14

22

12

29

13

8

8

20

8

2

-

-

-

2

-

74

Shetland

10

17

13

5

34

5

3

5

1

-

11

-

1

-

175

South Ayrshire

17

33

6

-

11

-

10

6

5

18

-

-

-

-

-

18

South Lanarkshire

71

4

4

13

3

3

4

8

4

5

1

0

0

362

Stirling

26

8

8

13

18

2

-

9

10

12

2

-

3

-

3

43

West Dunbartonshire

59

7

5

7

14

6

6

3

4

1

-

2

-

2

-

131

West Lothian

35

12

14

3

7

6

-

11

10

6

1

4

-

3

1

74

Scotland

50

12

10

9

7

5

5

6

6

2

1

1

0

1

1

6,865

Rows may add to more than 100% as multiple responses allowed.

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