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Waste from all sources Discover Data tool Last updated: 15th July 2025 Household Waste Discover Data tool Last updated: 28th October 2025 This page presents data and information on the types and quantities of waste generated and managed across Scotland.The Scotland’s Environment Waste Discover Data tool presents waste from all sources, i.e. from households, the construction and demoli

Fish farm survey report (October 2018) - supporting data Fish farm survey report (October 2018) - dataset IQI workbooks Setterness Djuba Wick Wick of Vatsetter Vidlin Voe Holms Geo Loura Voe Taing of Railsburgh Teisti Geo Bow of Hascosay Emamectin Benzoate SEPA Emamectin Benzoate (EmBz) analytical method SEPA EmBz analytical method validation SEPA chemistry validation procedure EmBz validation

SEPA regulates waste management activities in Scotland through Waste Management Licences (WMLs) and Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permits. Lower risk activities, such as some reclamation and recycling activities, are exempt from full waste management licensing, but must still be registered with SEPA. Further information on SEPA’s regulatory role is available from our waste regulation page

Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) reports Title Year RIFE 30 2025 RIFE 29 2024 RIFE 28 (View accessible version) 2023 RIFE 27 2022 RIFE 27 appendix 2022 RIFE 27 Errata 2022 RIFE 26 2021 RIFE 26 appendix 2021 RIFE 26 Errata 2021 RIFE 25 2020 RIFE 25 appendix 2020 RIFE 25 Errata 2020 RIFE 24 2019 RIFE 24 appendix 2019 RIFE 24 Errata 2019 RIFE Trends

SEPA guidance Guidance on decommissioning of non-nuclear facilities. Principles on Surrendering Permits and Registrations under the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018. Satisfying the optimisation requirement and the role of best practicable means. Guidance on monitoring for heterogeneous Radium-226 sources resulting from historic luminising or waste disposal sites. Managemen

Publication When reported When published Household waste summary data and text, pre-release access list and quality report 2024 28th October 2025 Household waste summary data and text, pre-release access list and quality report 2023 29th October 2024 Household waste summary data and text 2022 17th October Household waste summary data  2022 17th October Pre-release access list&nbs

The European Union Waste Statistics Regulation (2150/2002/EC) came into force in November 2002. It requires all Member States to provide data to the European Commission every two years on the generation and treatment of waste and on the number and capacity of waste management facilities. In this context, waste treatment covers incineration, recovery and disposal. The aim of the Regulation is to es

The Particles Retrieval Advisory Group (Dounreay) (PRAG(D)) was established in May 2009 and has the following objectives: To provide expert scientific advice to SEPA on the effectiveness of the offshore particle retrieval operation. To determine whether or not the Dounreay Particle Advisory Group (DPAG)’s, the PRAG(D) predecessor group, predications of particle numbers offshore and on local beach

Scotland’s soils are an important natural resource providing a wide range of benefits for people, the environment and the economy. It is essential to protect soils to ensure they are able to continue to provide these benefits for future generations. Why are soils important? Soils are a vital natural resource as they carry out a wide range of essential functions, such as growing food and timber, co

Local authorities are also required to report to SEPA about waste collected and managed by or on behalf of them. This is done through an online reporting system called WasteDataFlow (WDF). Reports are submitted to SEPA annually, with a submission deadline of 28 February.   Local authority waste data are verified on an annual basis by the Dataflows Unit and are used to help fulfil Scotlan