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 legally monitors waste from production to disposal or recovery, providing aggregated data on classification, tonnage, and geographic locations. Individual producer and site details are excluded for commercial confidentiality.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional waste generation and disposal patterns based on high-level geographic locations.
• Assessing hazardous waste tonnage flows between production and management facilities.
• Monitoring compliance with environmental regulations based on mandatory movement reporting.
• Identifying broad trends in hazardous waste classification types over time.

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 official status.

Limitations

• Metadata completeness is low: specific column names, row counts, and exact data formats are unknown.
• Data is a high-level summary; individual site and producer details are excluded, limiting granular analysis.
• A potential for double counting exists, as noted, if the same waste makes multiple movements.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency (UK), via Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2014

Freshness

2026-04-17 13:05:55.540017

Geography

England and Wales