Industrial waste in the UK

Permitted waste sites, incinerators, treatment works and pollutant release inventory sites. Figures come from EA public register, UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, and every area on this layer states its source and retrieval date.

What this layer shows

Permitted waste sites, incinerators, treatment works and pollutant release inventory sites.

The scale runs from Low intensity to High intensity. Areas with no published reading stay neutral and are labelled unknown.

Sources and confidence

Built from EA public register, UK Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. Each value records its source, the date it was retrieved and whether it is a verified reading, a derived statistic or a model output, following Property Data Trust Framework conventions.

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