Waste Data Interrogator: UK Regulated Facility Returns

Around 6,000 regulated waste management facilities in the UK report annual data on waste quantities and types received and sent on from site. This data, collected since 2006 by the Environment Agency, is used for compliance monitoring and has historically supported planning by the EC, DEFRA, and local authorities. It is published in multiple formats including an MS Access interrogator, Excel extracts, and regional summary tables.

Use Cases

• Monitoring compliance of waste operators based on reported quantities and types.
• Planning new waste facility capacity using aggregated regional summary data.
• Tracking waste flows between sites for environmental reporting.
• Analyzing time-series trends in waste management since 2006.

Strengths

• Covers a consistent scale of approximately 6,000 regulated sites annually.
• Provides a long-term time series, with data available in an interrogatable format since 2006.
• Includes multiple access formats (MS Access database, Excel extracts, summary tables).

Limitations

• Site details are omitted for operators who have successfully claimed commercial confidentiality.
• Data does not include details of the original waste producers.
• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are not provided in the available metadata.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency (UK)

Collection Method

Mandatory annual returns from operators of regulated waste management facilities.

Time Range

2006 to at least 2018 (calendar year data).

Freshness

The most recent update mentioned is for a 2018 version, corrected in October 2019.

Geography

England and former planning regions (UK).