Household recycling rates in Perth have barely improved in eight years and we are miles off the targets set for 2020, a new report has found.

But emerging leaders in the field are the WA councils supplying a third bin for food waste.

The state government considers diverting food baste with a three-bin system best practice, but it's yet to catch on across Perth councils. Credit:Waste Authority

The Waste Authority has released its annual report and it shows that household recycling rates have barely improved on 2010-11 levels.

Household waste represents about a quarter of all waste generated in WA, but still only 34 per cent of it was recycled in 2015-16 (the newest waste census results available), up from 31 per cent in 2010–11.