Hazardous Waste Data Archive

A waste is hazardous when it can harm human health or the environment. Industrial facilities and the construction and demolition are the largest source of hazardous waste in Ireland.

Hazardous waste types that can be treated include used motor oil, healthcare wastes, sludges, laboratory and chemical waste, contaminated soils and hazardous household waste from civic amenity sites.

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	Hazardous Waste Generated by Treatement Location										Haxardous Waste by Generation Type*											Hazardous Waste Generated by Sector*			R and D*
Year	Total hazardous waste including soils (t)	Total Hazardous Waste excluding soil (t)	Total Hazardous Soils (t)	Treated at Irish waste facilities, including soils (t)	Hazardous waste treated at Irish waste facilities, excluding soils (t)	Hazardous soil treated at Irish waste facilities (t)	Hazardous Waste Exported for treatment, including soils (t)	Hazardous waste exported for treatment excl. soils (t)	Hazardous soil exported for treatment (t)	Total Hazardous waste treated on-site of generation, no soils (t)	Incinerator Bottom Ash (t)	Waste Treatment (t)	Health Care (t)	Soil (t)	Solvents (t)	WEEE/Discarded Equipment (t)	Dredging Spoil (t)	Waste Oils (t)	Other (t)	Sludges and liquid wastes from waste treatment (t)	Chemical Reaction Residues (t)	Industrial/Other (t)	Construction & Demolition (t)	Municipal (t)	Disposal (t)	Recovery (t)
2009	327,959	315,055	12,904	102,420	89,992	12,428	150,871	150,395	476	74,668
2010	321,734	312,884	8,850	99,309	93,049	6,260	145,770	143,180	2,590	76,655
2011	333,619	316,322	17,297	106,607	99,513	7,094	159,240	149,037	10,203	67,772
2012	309,540	301,476	8,064	93,561	89,135	4,426	147,879	144,241	3,638	68,100
2013	316,911	304,422	12,489	92,520	87,690	4,830	159,639	151,980	7,659	64,752
2014	327,331	320,000	7,331	92,630	91,000	1,630	146,701	141,000	5,701	88,000
2015	346,767	326,500	20,267	99,938	94,000	5,938	180,329	166,000	14,329	66,500
2016	372,118	291,845	80,273	70,473	69,791	682	265,392	185,801	79,591	36,253
2017	436,160	334,112	102,048	87,517	86,909	608	314,529	213,089	101,440	34,114
2018	526,397	432,752	93,645	112,367	93,635	18,733	383,903	308,991	74,912	30,127	105,152	37,599	10,980	93,645	42,367	34,426			202,228
2019	580,977	505,723	75,254	146,309	117,246	29,063	379,386	333,195	46,191	55,282	106,979	45,647	12,087	90,614	48,622	32,459	10,538		234,031			464,438	103,606	12,940	226,232	354,746
2020	557,221	507,451	49,770	103,932	98,061	5,871	304,845	260,945	43,899	148,445	39,861	44,380	14,461	78,474	41,456	30,617	90,164	17,645	200,164	18,513	21,515	364,669	177,894	14,659	210,337	342,640
2021	466,941	433,990	32,951	148,575	115,951	32,624	223,236	222,909	327	95,130		39,951	15,001	32,951	68,013	30,621	65,373	23,570	191,461			336,429	108,987	21,528	148,701	318,240
2022	389,908	348,826	41,082	142,961	101,889	41,072	220,500	220,490	10	26,447		40,166	17,318	41,082	62,384	31,354	0	28,907	168,698			298,539	60,368	31,001	131,304	258,604
*Hazardous waste data breakdowns by generation type, generation sector, and recovery and disposal (R&D) are not availiable prior to 2018

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For more information see: Hazardous | Environmental Protection Agency (epa.ie)