WATCH: Recycling rates in Brighton and Hove fall again – why are we so rubbish at it?

Recycling rates in Brighton and Hove have fallen again.

A report published by Brighton and Hove City Council said that the “percentage of household waste sent for reuse, recycling and composting” stood at 25.6 per cent – down from 26.4 per cent a year ago.

The figure is way below the city’s target of 32 per cent and the national average of 43%.

The figures, in the council’s Annual Performance Update 2013-14, will not have been helped by the binmen’s strike last year.

Labour councillors called for a review of the communal recycling service, adding that in 2008-09 almost 30 per cent of household rubbish was recycled.

But Green leaders maintained the changes and incentives recently introduced would help push the figures in the right direction.

Latest TV’s James Dunham and Jody Dohety-Cove took to the streets to find out why Brighton and Hove is rubbish at recycling.