The Environment Agency collects information submitted in quarterly combined waste returns by operators of notified Materials Facilities in England under Schedule 9 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.
The regulation require qualifying Materials Facilities to provide details of waste materials received from each supplier and specified output material where relevant. Materials Facilities are also required to sample input waste materials and may also be required to sample specified output materials. Sampling results are also required to be submitted to the Environment Agency as a deemed permit condition.
The Environment Agency holds information reported by Materials Facility operators about:
• facility and reporting period details;
• incoming waste quantities, dates and suppliers, including whether material is in scope;
• input samples and material composition, including target, non-target and non-recyclable material;
• packaging content and material categories, including categories reported since October 2024;
• outgoing material quantities, dates, type or grade and destination; and
• output samples and composition (where sampling is required).
This dataset provides information about material received by Materials Facilities, the sampling and compositional analysis of that material, and material leaving the facilities. It is published annually and is a subset of the total information held by the EA.
The data within the dataset is operator-reported and reflects the sampling and reporting requirements applying to Materials Facilities. Data is held for October 2024 onwards, when regulatory reform significantly changed the requirements for Materials Facilities. The accuracy and completeness of data from the early reporting periods may therefore vary.
Before publication, commercially sensitive and personal information is removed or anonymised where necessary. Information may also be withheld where relevant statutory, confidentiality or national-security restrictions apply.
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