Waste Facility Licenses and Transporter Registrations

Records detail waste management businesses holding facility licenses and transporter registrations under the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act 2016. The dataset is updated fortnightly by Access Canberra and published on the ACT open data portal. Each entry includes license/registration numbers, entity details, contact information, and expiry dates.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of LICENSE/REG EXPIRY DATE to forecast regulatory workload for license renewals.
• Cluster businesses by ADDRESS or ENTITY NAME to map geographic service coverage for waste transporters.
• Predict LICENSE/REG EXPIRY DATE based on business attributes like TYPE and TRADING NAME using classification models.
• Link records via ABN or ACN to other business registries for enriched corporate structure analysis.
• Validate contact information completeness by checking null rates in PHONE and EMAIL columns for compliance reporting.

Strengths

• Contains 10 distinct columns covering business identity, contact, and regulatory status.
• Updated on a fortnightly schedule, ensuring regular data refreshes.
• Includes key business identifiers ABN and ACN for record linkage.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale and representativeness.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing inspection of data formats and value distributions prior to download.

Provenance

Source

Access Canberra, ACT Government (www.data.act.gov.au).

Collection Method

Issued under the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act 2016.

Freshness

Updated fortnightly; last updated 2026-03-25.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory, Australia.