Caerphilly County Borough Council exceeded its recycling target for 2015/16 by 4%, latest figures reveal.
Councils were tasked by the Welsh Government with meeting a recycling target of 58%, but Caerphilly Council hit 62%.
The authority is currently visiting every home across the county borough to encourage more residents to recycle, after a monitoring exercise in May revealed that just 38% of 7,000 randomly selected homes were recycling their food waste.
A team of recycling officers are visiting over 74,000 homes, providing free replacement food waste bins to households without one