Where Does My Waste Go?
A database of where your county council landfilled your non-recyclable household waste from 2004 to 2009. What is this?
Tonnage by year
| 2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
- 110,116 tonnes
- tonnage per head 0.18 2
- cost £3,523,712 1
|
- 141,415 tonnes
- tonnage per head 0.23 2
- cost £4,525,280 1
|
- 123,618 tonnes
- tonnage per head 0.21 2
- cost £3,955,776 1
|
- 111,349 tonnes
- tonnage per head 0.18 2
- cost £3,563,168 1
|
- 24,753 tonnes
- tonnage per head 0.04 2
- cost £792,096 1
|
Landfill sites
In which counties did Bedfordshire council dump their waste?
Locations of the landfill sites.
Returns (26 records)
Non-hazardous returns by Bedfordshire council.
- Landfilled 37,060 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2005
- Landfilled 848 tonnes in to
(null)
in 2005
- Landfilled 36,795 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2005
- Landfilled 35,413 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2005
- Landfilled 35,386 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2006
- Landfilled 37,661 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2006
- Landfilled 34,948 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2006
- Landfilled 33,420 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2006
- Landfilled 32,158 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2007
- Landfilled 32,454 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2007
- Landfilled 30,697 tonnes in to
MK43 0TN (Bedfordshire)
in 2007
- Landfilled 28,309 tonnes in to
MK42 9YU (Bedfordshire)
in 2007
- Landfilled 14,667 tonnes in to
MK43 9LY (Bedfordshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 14,667 tonnes in to
MK17 0AB (Buckinghamshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 2,501 tonnes in to
MK17 0AB (Buckinghamshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 6,122 tonnes in to
MK17 0AB (Buckinghamshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 3,673 tonnes in to
MK43 9LY (Bedfordshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 13,636 tonnes in to
MK43 9LY (Bedfordshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 1,933 tonnes in to
PE18 5UH (Cambridgeshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 18,820 tonnes in to
MK42 9YU (Bedfordshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 5,998 tonnes in to
MK17 0AB (Buckinghamshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 6,231 tonnes in to
MK42 9YU (Bedfordshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 2,582 tonnes in to
MK42 9YU (Bedfordshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 20,519 tonnes in to
NN14 4HY (Northamptonshire)
in 2008
- Landfilled 6,441 tonnes in to
MK42 9YU (Bedfordshire)
in 2009
- Landfilled 18,312 tonnes in to
NN14 4HY (Northamptonshire)
in 2009
Why?
On my trip to work each day I can see a huge landfill site. A mound of rotting household waste with gulls flapping around for morsels of food and, presumably, dead AAA batteries. Like most people I can usually fill a five foot high black bin every couple of weeks with non-recyclable stuff from my house, which Mole Valley Council whisk off at 6am every other Friday morning, so I wondered if any of the things I put in my bin found their way to the landfill.
Thanks
This is possible thanks to wastedataflow.org, a free site detailing all the waste returns filed by every council in England. That is to say, every deposit, both tonnage and location, of everything I've stuck in to my bin. Also thanks to What Do They Know? for help with my Freedom of Information request. I also used Geonames and Google Maps during translation of the wastedataflow postcodes to English counties.
Notes and Terminology
Disclaimer
Data has been exported by hand from a slightly opaque web GUI and transformed from a
unwieldily CSV to a neat and tidy database so there may have been errors in translation. No independent verification of how i've presented the data has been sought.
Most authorities report their landfill statistics from April in accordance with
the start of the financial year, so my data is not necessarily comparable with other publicly quoted
statistics.
Many local authorities do not add postcodes to their landfill statisitics, which makes it hard to draw on a map. Eg, This is why Devon has 744,512 tonnes of non-geolocataed waste - I don't have time to correct it.
Non-hazardous
Non-hazardous waste is waste which does NOT feature on the list of hazardous waste in the European Waste Catalogue (EWC) 2002 (PDF).
Cost of Landfill
Cost is quoted in todays prices at £32 per tonne.
The Landfill Tax, introduced in 1996, is encouraging waste producers to divert material from landfill and is a factor in making recycling more affordable, as there is often a cost to initiate recycling.
In April 2007 the tax rate for active waste increased by £3 to £24 per tonne. The rate for inactive waste is £2 per tonne. In April 2008 the active waste tax will rise by £8 to £32 per tonne. The government has said that the Landfill Tax will increase by £8 per tonne each year from April 2008 until at least 2010/11. The rate for inactive waste will increase to £2.50 per tonne in April 2008. [source: letsrecycle.com].
Population
The landfill tonnage divided by the current approximate population size of the district.
Populations taken from Wikipedia's counties and London sub-region pages.