Data investigation: A year in the life of Sheffield's waste
202,000 tonnes. Roughly the equivalent of 17,000 double decker buses, 4,500 train carriages, or 20 Eiffel Towers. That rather mind-boggling number is the amount of waste Sheffield created last year.
Like most of us, I don’t spend much time thinking about where my rubbish actually ends up. I’ve got a pretty clear idea of what belongs in each bin (though I sometimes waver with those plasticky flyers you get — blue or black?) But once I put the bin out, I don’t think much more about it. But all this was set to change when I stumbled across the dataset which forensically details where it all goes. After days of sifting through the data for 2021/22 — it was pretty opaque at first — it finally revealed its secrets to me.
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