SLIDE 1
Environment Agency – Action
Harvey Bradshaw Executive Director of Environment & Business
SLIDE 2 Action following last Roundtable (RAG)
- Continue to work together
- Focus on illegal sites
- Do more to stop waste entering illegal sites
- Address exemptions
- Preserve Account Management approach
- Simplify landfill regulation
- Tougher sentences (for criminals)
- Improve consistency
- Increase skills of regulators
- Role of local authorities increased
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ACCEPTABLE COMPLIANCE RANGE UNACCEPTABLE COMPLIANCE RANGE
LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE Criminals No intention
Generally non-compliant Generally compliant Trail-blazers Go beyond compliance Total disregard Investigate, prosecute and disrupt to stop this activity Unaware or obstructive Inform and educate – backed up by enforcement Positive(constructive) ownership Support towards full compliance Proactive ownership Step back and allow
SLIDE 4 Permitted site 1 – advice and guidance
Before After
SLIDE 5 Permitted site 2 – formal enforcement action
Before After
SLIDE 6 Compliance data is correct as of 1 October 2015. The graph above shows the current numbers of DEF and 2 year DEF sites compared to in-year reports run during 2014.
In year comparison of DEF numbers
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We take action against non compliant sites
SLIDE 8
Preventing new permitted “problem sites”
Management system now part of “Duly Made” application Ditto Fire Prevention Plans Tougher pre-application checks for financial standing, criminality and technical competence Work with Defra on workable financial provision requirement Standard rules permits – work underway
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Waste Enforcement Programme
Waste Crime Action Plan 2014 £5m Waste Enforcement Programme 2015 £4.2M 3 types of project:
Delivering more outcomes Improving how we work Gathering evidence on waste activities where we have concerns
SR15: £20M 2016 – 2020. More sustainable funding
SLIDE 10 Waste Enforcement projects
Major successes in tackling illegal waste sites although number up – more you look... Mis-description work ahead of schedule 700 Exemptions visited and evidence collected Specialist consultants to help on biowaste and
Duty of Care – ESA “Right waste-Right place” together with EA toolbox of interventions Tracking waste in illegal sites and following the supply chain
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We reduce the number of active high risk illegal waste sites
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Waste Enforcement projects
Fire tests on waste – collaboration WISH and CFOA 14 FTEs targeting 90 problem sites for odour 60 inspections at problem AD sites Insolvency pilot to obtain funds on liquidation 50 landspreading sites visited with action - good practice identified Reducing mis-classification of waste in WEEE
SLIDE 13 Operation Nosedive
“The additional resources provided to regulators in the last two budgets helped to fund this important work, but it is important that adequate funding is sustained.”
- Sam Corp, Head of Regulation at the Environmental Services Association
SLIDE 14 Massive fines for illegal tipping offences
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20 November 2015 Three businessmen
than £262,000 in fines, proceeds of crime payments and costs for illegally dumping more than 60,000 tonnes of waste on two farms near Callington, Cornwall.
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Developments in Landfill Regulation
Review CCS scoring guidance and enforcement response Co-ordinated national audit campaigns Review Technically Competent Management requirements Industry Finances and Site Abandonment Develop a new approach to Leachate Management Work with ESA to test radical new approach
SLIDE 16 Consistency and skills
Sector based approach – depth and focus Practicing Environmental Regulator (PER) Regulatory decision informal challenge Landfill CCS national scoring group Operational instructions National audits led by experienced regulators Individual concerns raised to Dir of Reg Ind Account management being developed further
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