Hazardous Waste Interrogator 2017: Summary Movements in England and Wales

The Hazardous Waste Interrogator 2017 provides a high-level summary of hazardous waste movements monitored by the Environment Agency in England and Wales. It includes aggregated tonnage and geographical locations for waste production and management facilities, but excludes individual producer details due to commercial confidentiality. The dataset was published by the Environment Agency in 2018.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional hazardous waste production patterns based on high-level geographical location data.
• Track aggregated tonnage of hazardous waste movements between production and management sites.
• Study waste management facility locations and their receiving volumes based on summary data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from legally mandated monitoring by the Environment Agency.
• Includes aggregated tonnage and geographical location data for waste movements.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data excludes individual producer and site details, limiting granular analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Legally required monitoring of hazardous waste movements.

Time Range

2017

Geography

England and Wales