NIEA Authorised Landfill Sites: Waste Tonnage Accepted in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Environment Agency data tracks the tonnage of waste accepted for landfilling each calendar year. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. Its last recorded update was on July 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Track annual waste disposal volumes based on the described tonnage metric.
• Analyze landfill site usage trends over time based on the calendar year data.
• Model waste generation and management capacity for Northern Ireland based on the geographic scope.
• Benchmark environmental performance of landfill sites based on the accepted waste data.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly updated and timestamped (2026-07-08).
• The dataset has a clear geographic scope (Northern Ireland).
• It is published under a permissive open government license (OGL-UK-3.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Time Range

Data is organized by calendar year.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.619142

Geography

Northern Ireland