England Waste Facility Receipts and Removals for 2020

England's regulated waste management facilities reported quantities and types of waste received and removed during the 2020 calendar year. The Environment Agency compiled data from around 6,000 sites for compliance monitoring and planning. Files were published between September 2021 and May 2024, with multiple corrections applied.

Use Cases

• Analyze waste type distribution across England's former planning regions using summary tables.
• Model waste flow networks between sites using origin and destination columns in the 'wastes removed' extract.
• Assess facility capacity and activity levels by aggregating 'waste received' quantities per site.
• Identify geographic clusters of waste management using corrected eastings and northings coordinate columns.
• Track corrections over time for specific high-interest sites, like the East Midlands site with double-counted returns.

Strengths

• Covers approximately 6,000 regulated waste management facilities.
• Provides separate detailed extracts for waste received and waste removed.
• Includes multiple corrected versions published from 2021 to 2024.

Limitations

• Site details are omitted for operators with accepted commercial confidentiality claims.
• Data excludes details of the original waste producers.
• Sample size and specific column counts are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency (UK).

Collection Method

Mandatory annual returns from operators of regulated waste management facilities.

Time Range

2020 calendar year.

Freshness

Data covers the 2020 calendar year; file versions were updated as recently as May 2024.

Geography

England, with data potentially aggregated for former planning regions.