Household waste presented by waste category and method of management
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Waste Category |
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Waste Management | |
Reference Area
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Entire dataset
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Waste from Scottish households generated and managed. The dataset is categorised by calendar year, waste category, and method of management. Management categories are: Recycled (includes waste reused and recycling of dry mixed recyclable waste, and organic waste composted or digested), Landfilled, and Other diversion from landfill (including incineration, recycling of incineration outputs, organic waste composted or digested at sites not accredited to the industry standard).
More information on waste data is also available on the SEPA website.
This is aggregated data and is not considered confidential in nature.
Data is sourced from Scottish local authority returns as reported using the WasteDataFlow system. SEPA undertakes a series of verification checks on the data prior to finalising the dataset for publication. Further detail can be viewed in a quality report on SEPA's website.
In the most recent reporting year there was a 100% return rate. SEPA undertakes a series of verification checks on the data prior to finalising the dataset for publication .More information is available in the SEPA quality report.
This dataset is presented rounded to the nearest tonne. For this reason, totals may not exactly equal the sum of their parts.
Data is checked against other SEPA regulatory returns, and any inconsistencies resolved during the verification stage. There are however some inconsistencies with other published datasets such as the Waste from all Sources statistics. These are due to the different source data collected for different purposes used to compile the different datasets. Inconsistencies include, for example, Paper and card recycled for households is only slightly less than the Paper and card recycled for waste from all sources - the waste from all sources would be expected to be considerably higher due to inputs of commercial waste. More information is available in the SEPA quality report.
The household dataset can be viewed in a commentary report on SEPA's website. There is also an interactive tool to view and download parts of the dataset on Scotland's Environment Web. The data submitted by local authorities is also accessible to the public on the WasteDataFlow website.
The household dataset is used to measure progress against Scottish Government recycling targets. It is also of general public interest, with interest from media usually expressed on the annual publication.
The dataset is published approx. 6 months from the date local authorities are required to submit their data in WasteDataFlow. During this time the data is checked, resulting in one or more resubmissions. The dataset is typically published within one month of the completion of the verification.
Revisions are undertaken in accordance with SEPA's revisions policy. Normally revisions are issued during the following reporting cycle. Where revisions are required outwith the reporting cycle, the policy states that users will be consulted.
This is a linked data resource: it has a permanent unique uri at which both humans and machines can find it on the Internet, and which can be used an identifier in queries on our SPARQL endpoint.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
Dimension | Locked Value |
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Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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(not locked to a value) |
Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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(not locked to a value) |
Waste Category
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/wasteCategory
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(not locked to a value) |
Waste Management
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/wasteManagement
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(not locked to a value) |
Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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(not locked to a value) |
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The data in this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/household-waste
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All other metadata about this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/household-waste/metadata
A breakdown by type of the 29,537 resources in this dataset's data graph.
Resource type | Number of resources |
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Collection | 2 |
Component specification | 9 |
Data set | 1 |
Data structure definition | 1 |
Observation | 29,524 |
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