Datasets

Circular Economy-related Datasets

• Edinburgh Council’s Communal Waste Collection Assets
• Edinburgh Council’s Litter Bins
• National Packaging Waste Database
• Scottish household waste data
• Recoup, UK Household Plastics Collection Survey 2018
• WRAP, PlasticFlow 2025, Plastic Packaging Flow Data Report

Open Data Portals

The following open data portals may contain datasets that are useful.

• data.gov.uk This is the direct download of the Office of National Statistics
• statistics.gov.scot
• Glasgow Open Data Portal
• Edinburgh Open Data Portal

In general, it’s best to look for datasets using CSV as their format. If you find an interesting dataset that is not in CSV format, let us know and we can try to help convert it.

For example https://data.glasgow.gov.uk/dataset/takeaways-and-sandwich-shops-in-glasgow is based on data from Food Standards Scotland. To get the same info for Edinburgh, we would need to convert this file from XML to CSV.