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Waste Matters Scotland
prototype
Articles
Facts per region
How is waste in my area?
Where can I dispose of xyz?
Origins
Who generates waste?
Household
Shops, schools, hospitals & similar
Industry
Materials
What enters the waste stream?
Classification of waste materials
Reusing waste materials
End-states
Where does waste end up?
Recycled
vs.
landfilled
vs.
other
Pros & cons of incineration
Waste consequences
Carbon impact
Tools
Maps
Waste facts for each region
Waste sites and quantities of incoming materials
Household quantities through time
Household CO
2
e through time
Household vs business quantities through time
Data grids with graphs
Household waste: overview
Household waste: Aberdeen City vs Dundee vs Scotland for landfilled per citizen?
Household waste: how much ended up recycled vs landfilled in Stirling in 2018?
Household waste: proportions recycled vs landfilled in Edinburgh?
Business waste: overview
Business waste: Fife's four largest wastes vs their averages
Business waste: combustion wastes by sector
SPARQL
Execute queries against the data (SPARQL)
Browse individual data records (Wikibase)
Data
About the datasets on this site
Datasets
Dimensions
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Household waste
(19,008 records)
Household CO
2
e
(208 records)
Business waste by region
(8,976 records)
Business waste by sector
(2,640 records)
Waste site
(1254 records)
Waste site ins & outs
(2,667,914 records)
Material coding
(557 records)
EWC coding
(973 records)
Households
(288 records)
Population
(288 records)
This site
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What data is missing and why?
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Who generates the waste?
Caution
Placeholder content.
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