What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National/regional environmental regulators (permit and waste-carrier/broker registers), IED installation registers, municipal authorities | Per-facility permit record with authorised waste codes and capacity limits | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and Eurostat (SBS, LFS by NACE), industry associations | Annual sector or NUTS-region employment and wage aggregates; per-entity… | public |
| financial filings | National company registers (Companies House, Handelsregister, etc.), business-information vendors (Orbis/Bureau van Dijk, Dun &… | Per legal entity annual accounts; segment revenue | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety authorities (HSE, national labour inspectorates), fire and rescue services (waste-site fire statistics)… | Per incident record; aggregated annual sector injury/fire rates | public |
| waste & emissions | Waste recovery operators, national environment agencies (e.g. EA, UBA, ADEME), Eurostat/EEA, European Environment Agency waste statistics… | Per-site annual or quarterly tonnages by EWC/LoW waste code; aggregated… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies and market data vendors (Argus, ICIS, Fastmarkets, Letsrecycle, EUWID, Plastics Recyclers indices); LME for… | Per-grade weekly or monthly price assessments by region; gate fees per tonne | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Operators' fleet telematics providers (Webfleet, Geotab, AMCS), municipal contract monitoring | Per vehicle GPS trace, second-to-minute level | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant operators, grid/utility metering, regulators for IED installations and EU ETS where applicable | Per-site monthly or half-hourly electricity/fuel consumption | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Operators' weighbridge/ERP systems; regulators via electronic waste-tracking systems (e.g. German eANV, Italian RENTRI, US-style… | Per shipment / per consignment note (weight, waste code, origin, destination… | partnership |
| production output | Recovery plant operators; industry associations (e.g. EuRIC, BIR, national recycling federations) compiling aggregate recovered-material… | Per-site daily/monthly output tonnages by recovered fraction (metals, plastics… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Operators' QC labs, third-party testing labs, certification bodies (EuCertPlast, Recyclass, end-of-waste conformity assessment)… | Per batch/lot analysis certificate (contamination %, moisture, calorific value… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Operators and traders; B2B recyclate marketplaces and brokerage platforms (e.g. Cirplus, Scrap trading platforms) | Per transaction / per load with grade, tonnage, counterparty | exclusive |
| inventory & supply chain | Recovery facility operators' ERP/weighbridge systems; feedstock supply contracts with municipalities and industrial producers | Per-site stockpile tonnage by grade, daily or weekly | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Plant operators; sorting equipment vendors (Tomra, Steinert, Pellenc ST) with connected NIR sorters and monitoring platforms | Per-machine continuous/second-level throughput, sort purity and belt-load… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant operators' CMMS; sorting/shredding equipment OEMs and service contractors | Per asset work order and downtime event | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.