Apparently not. The incinerator is in the borough of Enfield, so its emissions are counted as Enfield's in the official government tally, even though only a small portion of the rubbish comes from that borough.[1]The other six boroughs should of course be keeping track of the carbon emissions produced by their rubbish, but it’s unclear if they do.Hackney Council, at least, does not appear to take account of these emissions. In an email exchange with this campaign in late August, a Council representative said that he was not sure whether Hackney’s contributions to the incinerator feedstock were being accounted for in official emissions figures.[2] (Our campaign has since confirmed with BEIS that they are not counted.)These statistics are being used to declare Hackney London's greenest borough. A real accounting of Hackney’s emissions — one that included the rubbish Hackney burns at Edmonton — would reveal the borough’s emissions to be 13.2% higher than official statistics showed.[3][1] Source: Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Greenhouse Gas Inventory Team, in an email to Edward Carver on 11/10/2019[2] The representative was Paul Dobbs, Waste and Environment Manager, Hackney Council. ‘Unfortunately I have no idea about your…question and don’t know who at the council would,’ he wrote in an email to Edward Carver on 30/08/2019.[3] Here’s the basic math: Hackney’s rubbish makes up about 15.5 percent of that which is burned at Edmonton, according to the most recent NLWA annual report. The incinerator emitted 581,019 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2016, the last year for which reliable statistics are available. This means that the incineration of Hackney’s rubbish created 90,058 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2016. Hackney’s official emissions total that year, which did not include the incinerator emissions, was 678,100 tonnes. (If we had statistics for a more recent year, the overlooked percentage would be higher than 13.2%, as Hackney’s other emissions have gone down.)