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Connect London Waste Household Recycling Council to your AI

Set it up once and it works in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and any other client you love. It all runs safely in the background, so you can relax and focus on what really matters. Get direct access to official London waste management datasets.

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Curated set · 7 capabilities

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Capability set01 / 02

01-04

4 capabilities in this set.

Part of 7 available through London Datastore.

  1. 01

    Waste management annual

    Provides annual GLA waste management indicators for London and England. It returns waste splits as fractions, such as 0.5 for 50%.

  2. 02

    Waste management lookup

    Retrieves one specific year of GLA waste management indicators. You must provide a financial year like 2024/25.

  3. 03

    Waste management overview

    Summarizes how London waste management has changed by comparing the first and last available years.

  4. 04

    Recycling latest year

    Returns the most recent published year of household recycling rates for London.

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05-07

3 capabilities in this set.

Part of 7 available through London Datastore.

  1. 05

    Recycling ranking

    Ranks the 43 different areas, including boroughs and regions, by their household recycling rates. You can limit the results to a specific top-N number.

  2. 06

    Recycling rate lookup

    Fetches the full recycling rate time series for a specific area. You can search for a borough, Inner London, or England.

  3. 07

    Recycling rates

    Accesses household recycling rates by area and financial year from 2002/03 to 2024/25. It covers all 33 boroughs and various regional aggregates.

Real work

What teams actually run

01

Policy Impact Assessment

Compare waste management deltas between the first and last recorded years to see if policies are working.

02

Borough Performance Audits

Identify which specific London boroughs are lagging in recycling rates using the ranking capability.

03

Regional Benchmarking

Check if London's waste management trends align with or diverge from the rest of England.

04

Historical Data Retrieval

Pull specific recycling percentages for a single borough from the 2002/03 series.

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Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — London Datastore capabilities are ready to use.
Configuration · claude_desktop_config.jsonCopy
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      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_5EB587FhA1eu7nU2OpumFxJmhrb43qULdgX9OO8K/mcp"
    }
  }
}
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Step-by-step instructions for each client are in the guide. How to connect

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Who it's for

Built for the work London Datastore owners hand off.

This MCP is designed for professionals analyzing urban sustainability and waste policy in the UK.

  • 01

    Urban Policy Researchers

    They use the data to track long term shifts in municipal waste management.

  • 02

    Sustainability Teams

    They pull borough specific recycling rates to inform local environmental targets.

  • 03

    Journalists

    They query the data to compare how different London areas handle waste recovery.

FAQ

Questions London Datastore owners ask.

  • 01

    Where does this data come from?

    The data is pulled directly from the London open-data platform at data.london.gov.uk.

  • 02

    What years of data are available?

    Waste management data covers 2000/01 to 2024/25, while household recycling rates go back to 2002/03.

  • 03

    Can I compare different London boroughs?

    Yes, the recycling_ranking capability allows you to compare all 43 areas, including the 33 boroughs and the City of London.

  • 04

    How are the years formatted?

    The capabilities map the source Excel serials to standard UK financial year labels, such as 2024/25.

  • 05

    Does this include landfill data?

    Yes, the waste management capabilities provide the annual split for landfill, incineration, and recycling.

  • 06

    Do I need an API key?

    No. data.london.gov.uk publishes every dataset as an anonymous file download (CSV or Excel). This MCP defines no credentials and needs nothing configured.

  • 07

    What is a financial year label like "2024/25"?

    The UK fiscal year runs April to March, so 2024/25 covers 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. The source files store years as Excel serial numbers; the capabilities convert them to these labels and accept the labels back as filters.

  • 08

    What do the waste fractions mean?

    The annual table is per resident: the share of all council-collected waste, in tonnes per person, that went to each route. landfill, incineration with energy recovery (EfW), incineration without, recycling, or nothing. The columns are London alongside England for the same year.

  • 09

    Do the recycling rates include the regions of England?

    Yes. The household recycling-rate series carries the 33 London boroughs, London overall, England and the eight English regions, so a ranking or lookup can name any of them. 'South East', 'London', 'Barnet', and so on.

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