Natural Environment

Annual data on national waste generation and recycling rates for the overall municipal solid waste stream and for a number of specific materials. Most recent year is 2017

Data on the recycling industry workforce

Manufacturing industry data on the use of virgin (primary) and recycled (secondary) materials in the U.S. for several dozen minerals published anually as far back as 1996

Map of recycling opportunities in the Southeast United States

Map of Commingled Residential MRFs nationwide, which are facilities that accept recyclables separated from trash and then brought in for processing as either single stream or dual stream materials to be sorted into individual commodities and sold to market

Monthly, quarterly, and annual data on overall and materials-specific recycling industry economics

Annual and monthly reports with statistics and business information on the North American aluminum industry

A tool used to search for products, services, and vendors within the aluminum industry

Annual historical data regarding domestic can shipments including detailed statistics, broken down by market, product, material used and technology.

Monthly and annual shipment and production data on the national steel industry

Industry data including global trends, plastics quarterly forecasts, monthly plastics production and capacity utilization statistics

2019 report that includes financial performance, trade, capital investments in the chemistry industry

Complete directory of materials that Association of Plastic Recyclers (ARP) Members purchase and sell, as well as services (grinding, densifying, washing, pelletizing, compounding and solid stating) provided by APR members

Lists of companies that distribute and sell glass materials

links to state and local waste characterization studies, including information on municipal solid waste (MSW) generation, recycling, combustion with energy recovery and landfilling

Includes data and trends on plastic, glass, metal and fiber recycling, as well as links to tools that support the recycling value chain

Allows users to search by location to find the nearest material recovery facility (MRF), glass processor, end-market or large city drop-off locations that accept glass

Shoreline marine debris surveys completed by partner organizations and volunteers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Program (MDMAP), this data follows strict Q/A Q/C protocols including transect monitoring.

Public data system containing the world's largest ocean trash dataset, all collected by volunteers that allows viewers to see ocean trash data at a global scale or even zoom into their local beach. Easily download reports available for any country, state, region or location

Provides a map of beach litter data collection events organised by MLW communities, as well as overview graphs and tables

Database with data on over 2 million pieces of litter and debris collected by thousands of citizen scientists from all over the world

Map showing types and amounts of debris scuba divers around the world have removed and reported from underwater environments since 2011

Online tool that increases interaction and connectivity to plastic pollution by allowing users to report, rate and map trash hot-spots in their waterways and coastlines via mobile devices and a web-based platform

Collection of plastics pollution data, including decomposition rates of marine debris items, global river plastic input to the ocean by region, plastic waste generated by coastal populations etc.

EPA's official open data catalog

Comprehensive and detailed estimate of air emissions of criteria pollutants, criteria precursors, and hazardous air pollutants from air emissions sources collected by State, Local, and Tribal air agencies and blended with other data sources

Current and forecast air quality maps and data for more than 500 cities across the U.S. available through map view showing U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), a color-coded index designed to communicate whether air quality is healthy or unhealthy for you

Current and forecast air quality maps and data for more than 500 cities across the U.S. with U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), available through API

Software that estimates the health impacts and economic value of changes in air quality (specifically ground level ozone and fine particles)

Nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental indicators including 6 measures of air quality with 6 demographic demographic indicators

Estimates of average weekday household person trips, vehicle trips, person miles traveled, and vehicle miles traveled (per day), for all Census tracts for the year 2017

Comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation

Nearly 20 collections of public-use data for topics including U.S. births, deaths, environmental exposures, and population estimates primarily on compiled annually, as granular as county-level

124 indicators including asthma deaths and prevention that allow states, territories and large metropolitan areas to uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data

Information on the role of ports, how ports can impact local land use, economic trends, air quality and other aspects of the enivonment and quality of life

Information for school communities to identify strategies for reducing traffic-related pollution exposure at schools located downwind of heavily traveled roadways

Summarizes research findings on best practices for building roadside vegetative barriers to improve air quality

Provides K-12 students and educators with access to quality homework resources, lesson plans and project ideas for learning and teaching about the environment

For children in pre-school through 2nd grade, teaches a simple lesson – that there are many transportation alternatives to using a car

A poster from the EPA's Clean School Bus Program explaining how reducing idling results in cleaner air

Information needed to run an effective idling reduction campaign at a school to reduce student exposure to toxic vehicle exhaust. This includes student-run science or community involvement projects, which offer students an opportunity to run a public service campaign while expanding their science and math skills

Gives information about the environmental performance of light-duty vehicles using 0-10 emissions score and the fuel economy numbers to compare environmental performance across vehicle classes

City and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States

Local, state, and national level data and information on the environment, exposures, health effects and population characteristics

National scale assessment to examine current and future emissions from a variety of diesel sources operating in port areas, explore a range of available strategies to reduce emissions, provide an assessment tool, and inform priorities and decisions for port areas

The Census application programming interface (API) lets developers create custom apps to reach new users and makes key demographic, socio-economic and housing statistics more accessible than ever before

Tract-level data on household characteristics and industry and occupation, broken out by demographic characteristics of workers at the Census tract level

Resources for demographic information at the Census tract level

A tool that estimates the health and economic benefits of clean energy policies

Collection of asthma data at both the national and the state level

National and state-level CO2 emission data, 1990-2017 including from the transportation sector

Number of days with AQI values greater than 100 at trend sites and all monitoring sites

Monthly data based on hourly traffic count data reported by States, collected at approximately 5,000 continuous traffic counting locations

1-km resolution inventory of annual on-road CO2 emissions for the conterminous United States based on roadway-level vehicle traffic data and state-specific emissions factors for multiple vehicle types on urban and rural roads

ACOS Level 2 data product contains estimates of the carbon dioxide (CO2) column averaged dry air mole fraction and other environmental variables for all cloud free soundings, 2009-2020

NASA, in collaboration with other organizations, has a series of instruments that provide information for understanding a number of phenomena associated with air quality and public health

National data on CO2 emissions and fuel economy based on production volumes delivered for sale in the U.S. by model year, from 1975-2019

Outdoor air quality data collected from state, local and tribal monitoring agencies across the United States

National and state-level trends for Tier 1 pollutant emission contributions among major source types from 1970 - 2019

National, city, and county trends in six criteria air pollutants (carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, and sulfure dioxide) through 2018

Imagery data from the agricultural growing seasons. Includes ArcGIS Rest Services URL for the public facing, most current year 1-meter or higher resolution 4-band NAIP cached image services for the lower 48 states. The service is served out as pre-rendered tiles with 18 levels of detail which is equivalent to about 1.19 meters resolution at the largest scale

ArcGIS Rest Service URL for vector services that include information about the NAIP collection 2011-2017. Date indexes are state based and contain polygon information used in the collection of the imagery, including acquisition date, camera type, sensor or lens serial number, and the electromagnetic spectrum range for the red, blue, green, and near infrared bands.

Suite of products and services that provide access to base geospatial information to describe the landscape of the United States and its territories including boundaries, elevation, geographic names, hydrography, land cover, orthoimagery, structures, and transportation

Data.gov for geospatial data from a variety of federal agencies on topics including climate & weather, elevation, geology, land use and cover, utilities and others