2021 Hazardous Waste Interrogator: England Waste Movement Summary

2021 high-level summary of hazardous waste movements in England, compiled by the Environment Agency. The dataset aggregates legally required monitoring data from producers and waste management facilities, excluding commercially confidential details like individual site names. It includes waste classification, geographical locations of production and disposal, and tonnage.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional hazardous waste production patterns based on high-level geographical locations.
• Track aggregate tonnage of hazardous waste movements between production and disposal areas.
• Study high-level waste classification trends for environmental monitoring purposes.
• Assess national hazardous waste flow summaries for policy compliance reporting.

Strengths

• Data is compiled from legally required monitoring by the Environment Agency.
• Includes high-level waste classification, geographical locations, and tonnage.
• Summary data protects commercially confidential 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.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, covering only England and Wales.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Legally required data collection from hazardous waste producers and waste management facilities.

Time Range

2021

Geography

England and Wales