2019 Hazardous Waste Interrogator: High-Level Waste Movements in England

The Environment Agency's Hazardous Waste Interrogator summarizes legally required data on hazardous waste movements in England and Wales for 2019. It includes high-level waste classification, geographical locations of production and management facilities, and tonnage data, but excludes individual producer and site details. The dataset is published as an Excel file and is subject to copyright by the Environment Agency.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional hazardous waste flows based on high-level geographical location data.
• Monitor aggregate hazardous waste tonnage trends across England and Wales.
• Assess waste management facility capacity based on received waste tonnage summaries.
• Identify high-level waste classification patterns for policy development.

Strengths

• Data is legally mandated and collected by the authoritative Environment Agency.
• Provides summary data on hazardous waste movements, including tonnage and geography.
• Protects commercial confidentiality by excluding individual producer details.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Contains a double counting element for waste making multiple movements.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Legally required monitoring of hazardous waste movements.

Time Range

2019

Geography

England and Wales