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Hazardous Waste Interrogator 2017

Summary

The Environment Agency is legally required to monitor all movements of hazardous waste in England and Wales. Hazardous waste producers are required to provide data about the wastes they move and the site where the waste is disposed or recovered is required to inform us of the details of the wastes they receive. Hazardous waste producer data is commercially confidential. However a summary of the movements is provided in this Hazardous Waste Interrogator. Only high-level waste classification geographical locations (where the waste was produced and where the waste management facility is located) and tonnage is included. Individual site names and producers details are not included. INFORMATION WARNING High level summary data. Does not include individual producers’ and site details. Double counting element of the same waste making multiple movements should be noted.

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2018. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

annually

Lineage

Hazardous Waste movements are extracted from the Hazardous Waste Returns Database. All data are aggregated to Local Authority. No individual site details are provided.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

a523e723-6ac7-4272-97c8-5cb2e1954db6


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

03 September 2018

Revision date

03 September 2018

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 2017
  • To: 31 December 2017

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