Hazardous Waste Interrogator: Movements in England and Wales

Environment Agency data summarizes all monitored movements of hazardous waste in England and Wales. The dataset includes high-level waste classification, geographical locations of production and management facilities, and tonnage, but excludes individual site and producer details for confidentiality. Data is a summary from the legally required monitoring system and may involve double counting for waste making multiple movements.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional flows of hazardous waste based on high-level geographical locations.
• Assessing aggregate tonnage of hazardous waste movements for regulatory reporting.
• Mapping potential environmental risk areas from waste production and disposal locations.
• Studying the distribution of waste management facility types handling hazardous materials.

Strengths

• Data is collected under a legal mandate, ensuring systematic coverage of hazardous waste movements in England and Wales.
• Provides specific, aggregated metrics like tonnage and high-level geographical classification.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is missing: row count, column names, specific license, and data format details are unknown.
• Data is a high-level summary; individual producer and site details are excluded for commercial confidentiality.
• The dataset may contain double counting, as the same waste making multiple movements is not deduplicated.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency (UK), via Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Legally required registration of hazardous waste producers and reporting by waste disposal/recovery sites.

Freshness

2026-04-17 13:05:50.307680

Geography

England and Wales