Remaining Landfill Void in Wales
Permitted landfill operators have a condition in their permits to report the remaining landfill void (capacity) of their sites at the end of the calendar year. This information although used for compliance purposes is also used by the EC, Government, Local Authorities and other interested parties for statutory reporting and waste planning purposes. Data is provided in cubic metres and collated into a national dataset. There are only around 20 operational landfills in Wales. Operators can claim commercial confidentiality for their data at time of submission. To date, no operator has claimed commercial confidentiality.
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Identification
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- NRW_DS124663
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- Landfill capacity
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- English
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These estimations are based on the latest reported void space by operational landfills and may relate to previous estimations where the current years data is not available. Estimations provided by landfill operators have not been quality assured. Figures provided by landfill operators have been adjusted by NRW to account for loss of actual ‘waste disposal’ void through engineering and cover requirements (approximately 25%).
NRW has not produced landfill void estimates for all years. This dataset is a snapshot of the latest estimated capacity and has its limitations. We have most confidence in the 2018 dataset because the latest operator estimates have been adjusted to take into consideration loss of capacity owing to cover and engineering requirements. This improved methodology was not completed for previous annual estimates of remaining landfill void in Wales. It is planned to adopt this improved method for future updates.
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2024-12-06
Extent
Extent
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- Wales (WLS)
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Landfill Operators provide NRW with estimations of remaining void space in their annual monitoring reports or waste returns. NRW extracts this information manually in a separate document in order to produce a collated summary for each site in one spreadsheet.
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- Download Data ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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- NRW Online Conditional Licence ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Quality
Data quality
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- Dataset
- Conformity
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
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These estimations are based on the latest reported void space by operational landfills and may relate to previous estimations where the current years data is not available. Estimations provided by landfill operators have not been quality assured. Figures provided by landfill operators have been adjusted by NRW to account for loss of actual ‘waste disposal’ void through engineering and cover requirements (approximately 25%).
NRW has not produced landfill void estimates for all years. This dataset is a snapshot of the latest estimated capacity and has its limitations. We have most confidence in the 2018 dataset because the latest operator estimates have been adjusted to take into consideration loss of capacity owing to cover and engineering requirements. This improved methodology was not completed for previous annual estimates of remaining landfill void in Wales. It is planned to adopt this improved method for future updates.
Keywords
Keywords
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Citation
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- 2008-06-01
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NRW Thesaurus
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- landfill
- hazardous waste
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-01-08
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IPSV Subjects List
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- Waste management
- Waste disposal
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-11-18
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- Waste (SMNR)
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-06-26
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NRW Profile
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Limitations on Public Access and Use
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Full access to this data may be restricted under relevant legislation.
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© CNC/NRW Data may be re-used under provision and in line with the terms of a NRW licence.
Attribution Statement
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved.
Licence
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- NRW Conditional
Metadata
Metadata
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- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313234363633 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
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- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-12-19T12:08:39.835Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
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1.0