Hazardous Waste Interrogator: Movements in England and Wales

England and Wales hazardous waste movements are tracked in this high-level summary dataset. The Environment Agency collects data on waste tonnage, origin, and destination for monitoring purposes. Individual producer and site details are excluded for commercial confidentiality.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional waste flow patterns based on high-level geographical locations.
• Monitoring aggregate hazardous waste tonnage movements for regulatory oversight.
• Assessing the distribution of waste types between production and management facilities.

Strengths

• Data is collected under a legal mandate, ensuring systematic coverage of hazardous waste movements in England and Wales.
• Cross-platform presence on eu_open_data and uk_data signals established importance and accessibility.

Limitations

• Metadata completeness is low; specific column names, row counts, and exact data structure are unknown.
• Data is a high-level summary that excludes individual site and producer details, limiting granular analysis.
• A noted double-counting element exists for waste making multiple movements, which may affect aggregate totals.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency (UK)

Collection Method

Legal registration and reporting by hazardous waste producers and management facilities.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

Last updated metadata indicates 2026-04-17, but the underlying data copyright is from 2015.

Geography

England and Wales