WASTE ATLAS
Europe, drawn by its own industrial waste
There is no basemap below. Every point of light is a real facility reporting waste transfers to the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register — the continent emerges from 18 years of its own garbage.
993.7M
tons of waste tracked
28,371
industrial facilities
31
countries, 2007-2024
68.6M
tons/yr matchable within 100 km
Reported off-site waste transfers, million tons per year
The Matchmaker — one plant's waste, the neighbor's feedstock
Pairing each large non-hazardous waste producer (2018-2024) with its nearest plausible industrial off-taker. Pick a symbiosis route:
485 producer-offtaker pairs found · 16.9M tons/yr · median distance 20 km — slag to cement clinker substitute
ships ~1.2M tons/yr of slag to cement clinker substitute
3.0 km away · PL
ships ~1.0M tons/yr of slag to cement clinker substitute
14.3 km away · IT
ships ~973K tons/yr of slag to cement clinker substitute
44.9 km away · AT
ships ~767K tons/yr of slag to cement clinker substitute
44.8 km away · FR
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Data: European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR), 2007-2024, via the SymbioFlows industrial-symbiosis dataset. Matches are proximity-based estimates, not commercial agreements. Dark regions are reporting gaps, not clean ones: the UK leaves the register after Brexit, Italy after 2023.