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Environmental performance of the sector Dr. Gillian Pratt Director of Regulated Industry Highlights of the evidence summaries for waste & pollution incidents Performance of the waste & resource management sector Long term trends

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Environmental performance of the sector

Dr. Gillian Pratt

Director of Regulated Industry

Highlights of the evidence summaries for waste &

pollution incidents

Performance of the waste & resource management

sector

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Long term trends in pollution incidents

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200 400 600 800 1000 1200

2000 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013 Number of incidents

All serious pollution incidents (including activities we regulate and those we don't) in England

Farming Water Waste management facilities Other industry Other Air Land Water Amenity

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20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Farming (all sites) Water companies Waste treatment (non-hazardous) Biowaste treatment Landfill Number of incidents

Serious pollution incidents: top 5 sectors in England

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

100% water 85% water 11% amenity

Amenity incidents Incidents to water

90% amenity 88% amenity 89% amenity

Incidents to land and non- amenity incidents to air (note: not all incidents to air are amenity incidents)

20 40 60 80 100 All farms Intensive Farms Incidents to water Amenity incidents In 2014, 10% of pollution incidents fromfarming activities were from farms with permits, compared to 12% in 2013

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Waste fires

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552 599 531 697 604 588 531 481 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 2010/11 @ Q4 2011/12 @ Q4 2012/13 @ Q4 2013/14 @ Q4 2014/15 @ Q4 2015/16 @ Q1 2015/16 @ Q2 2015/16 @ Q3

Number of category 1 & 2 Pollution Incidents by reported date - 12 month total to the end of the period shown

Improvements since 2013 Total serious pollution incidents

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Illegal Waste Sites

680 618 1011 820 556 598 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 Number of sites

Illegal waste sites in England, 2009/10 to 2014/15

New sites found Sites still active at the end of March Illegal activity stopped

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Waste treatment (non hazardous), 109 (of 4083 permits) Landfill, 52 (of 2363 permits) Biowaste treatment, 17 (of 651 permits) Waste treatment (metals recycling), 17 (of 2641 permits) All other industry, 34 (of 4427 permits)

Persistent poor performers Permits in compliance bands D, E or F in 2013 and 2014

(5.9) (4.4) (3.8) (3.3) (3.1) (2.9) (3.8) (4.1)

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Number of permits refused or revoked Number of permits

EPR permits rated for poor compliance (all sectors) in England, 2007 to 2014

Band D Band E Band F (poor) EPR permits refused EPR permits revoked

(on operator competence grounds) Our approach to categorising sites where there was no compliance check changed in 2013 (Percentage D, E and F permits)

Performance of permitted sites

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Summary

Transformation in waste & resource management sector. After sustained reduction in total pollution incidents 2000 – 2012, increase in 2013 Waste sector:

increase in pollution incidents and a decrease in

performance over 2010 – 2013

waste sector causing less incidents in 2014 than

2013 but more than in 2010, 2011 or 2012 Continued joint effort needed to tackle persistent poor performers and high risk sites in treatment, landfill and bio-waste

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