WOKINGHAM has cleaned up in a survey to find the country’s tidiest town.
The borough also scored high on its low emission carbon footprint score.
The survey by business analysts, Utility Bidder, ranked Wokingham as the second cleanest town in the country.
Experts studied a range of factors including CO2 emissions, environmental expenditure, city cleanliness, park quality, Britain in Bloom groups and It’s Your Neighbourhood groups per 100,000 residents.
They also examined the number of recycling-related searches per 100,000 residents, to reveal the cleanest areas of the UK.
Wokingham was just pipped by County Durham but beat places such as Bath, Harrogate and Cheshire.
It was awarded an overall ‘clean and tidy’ rate of 83/100 while the area’s green areas and parks were ranked a quality score of 75/100.
The town’s carbon dioxide emission total of 3.5 tCO2e per capita was the lowest of all areas in this ranking.
The low number of annual searches for recycling near me per 100,000 residents suggested “this community are clued up when it comes to cleanliness.”