Identification

Title

2019 Hazardous Waste Interrogator

Alternative title(s)

HWI 2019

Abstract

There is one resource on this record - excel version of high level hazardous waste movements in England We no longer publish this dataset in MS Access. 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. Attribution statement: Open Government Licence © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/datafiles/a6401b48e43e4e2f8970770f4d11d09f

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: 2019 Hazardous Waste Interrogator (Excel Version)

Unique resource identifier

code

d19da52c-73f0-47b8-be6f-09eaeb7aac39_resource

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Hazardous waste movements

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2019-01-01

End position

2019-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2020-09-30

date type

revision

effective date

2020-09-30

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

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.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | MS Excel (XLSX)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-03-04

Metadata language