Hazardous Waste Interrogator 2013: England and Wales Waste Movement Summary

2013 data from the Environment Agency's AfA229 product summarizes hazardous waste movements in England and Wales. The Agency legally monitors these movements, collecting data from producers and waste management facilities. High-level summaries include waste classification, geographical locations, and tonnage, but exclude confidential producer details.

Use Cases

• Analyze hazardous waste tonnage flows based on high-level waste classification data
• Map waste movement patterns based on geographical location data for production and disposal sites
• Study regional waste management capacity based on aggregated facility receipt data

Strengths

• Data is legally mandated and collected by a government agency (Environment Agency)
• Provides high-level geographical locations for waste production and management facilities
• Includes tonnage information for hazardous waste movements

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
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Legal monitoring of hazardous waste movements from registered producers and waste management facilities.

Time Range

2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 13:05:53.754974; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales