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Putting the Right Waste in the Right Place Preventing waste crime by working together to raise awareness of waste duty of care Kent Resource Partnership Annual Conference 19 September 2018 Sam Corp, Head of Regulation, Environmental Services

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Putting the Right Waste in the Right Place

Preventing waste crime by working together to raise awareness of waste duty of care

Kent Resource Partnership Annual Conference 19 September 2018

Sam Corp, Head of Regulation, Environmental Services Association

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ESA…

is the voice of the waste

management industry

members represent the

majority of the sector

works to raise standards
helping our members turn

Britain’s waste into valuable resources whilst protecting the environment.

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The Session today:

The importance of ‘Duty of Care’ to all parties in

the ‘Waste Chain’

Focus on tackling Waste Crime
The ‘right Waste right Place’ campaign to raise

awareness of Duty of Care and to help tackle Waste Crime.

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EPA90

Section 33 Section 34 Duty of Care 2011

Waste E&W Regs 2011 Carrier, Broker Dealer Environmental Permitting Regs 2010 Haz waste regs 2005& 2015

Code of Practice 2016

Public Registers

Duty of Care: The ‘Glue’!

Exports

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Prevent unauthorised or harmful treatment or

disposal i.e. authorised waste site (permitted or authorised exemption

Prevent a breach by any other person to meet

conditions of permit or exemption

Prevent escape of waste form your control
Provide an accurate description on transfer
Transfer only to an ‘Authorised person’
[adequate] written description of the waste on

transfer

Retention of documentation

Obligations on ALL holders of Waste

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The Waste Chain in 1990

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The waste chain in 2018!!!

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Total cost of waste crime

£3/4 billion per annum

Abandoned sites and fires
Impact on environment

and communities

Deters investment by

legitimate operators in the sector

Waste Crime is not victimless:

Duty of Care- Tackling Waste Crime

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Getting worse - Despite increased

attention by Government.

Rethinking Waste Crime: Cost of

waste crime in England alone increased to £604 million a year….

Nearly 1000 new illegal sites added

to regulators’ databases every year

Flytipping: nearly 1 million

incidents/yr and £60 million cost to Local Authorities in England and Wales - and rising!

Waste Crime

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£209m

Fly-Tipping

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Serious Breach of Permit & Exemptions

£87m

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Illegal Exports

£30m

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First point of contact for

waste producers

No competency

requirements or rigorous identity checks

180,000 registered waste

carriers, brokers and dealers

What’s going wrong?

Carriers

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There are over 60

different kinds of easily acquired exemptions (from a permit)…

….most are free
Half a million

registered exemptions on nearly 100,000 sites

Exemptions

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Ramp up enforcement
Electronic transfer?
Raise Awareness

Duty of Care

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Why?

Duty of Care awareness is key to reducing waste

crime

Drives company compliance and a secure audit trail
Provide a level playing field
Business benefits

Right Waste, Right Place Campaign: To raise awareness across waste producing business sectors of the importance of Duty of Care compliance.

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Campaign Products

Dedicated website: Downloadable content, interactive,

videos/animation, guidance, links to third parties www.rightwasterightplace.com

Best Practice Guidance: ‘Simple guides’, case studies, waste

‘need to know’ cards, FAQs, leaflets, infographics and posters : easy to read, downloadable.

Events: Seminars, presentations, workshops – opportunity to

share best practice

Market research: Gauge awareness of Duty of Care.
Press Office: drive interest in the campaign.
Active Engagement: Ambassador Programme.

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Survey of 1000 SME’s in construction, agriculture and retail sectors:

RWRP Campaign Survey

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Campaign managed by the ESA , sponsored and

supported by the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, CIWM and ESAET.

Strong ‘buy in’ from a number of waste producing and

waste managing business companies/sectors and Local Authorities.

Ambassador Programme: Formalises engagement

between the campaign and associated third parties and helps to promote the campaign in different sectors.

Active Engagement

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A Network of RWRP Ambassadors determined to tackle waste crime

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Review

Over 40 Ambassadors - reaching over 500,000 customers, sub

contractors and supply chain partners

Construction and agriculture sub sector campaigns – bespoke

research and guidance

Good media coverage – national, regional and local print

media as well as Regional Radio - 10 million ‘opportunities to see’

Expansion to Wales – Welsh language versions
Numerous awareness raising seminars with over 1000

attendees

Phase 3 planned – focus on sharing information and

intelligence, collaboration between legitimate industry and the UK’s regulators

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In Summary

Tacking waste crime is a priority – it costs England more than

£600m, Wales over £30 million each year, deters investment in the sector, costs jobs and harms the environment and people.

There is a call from industry for tougher regulation, tighter

requirements.

Awareness of Duty of Care across the whole waste chain is

key to encourage behaviour change

Collaboration is key – Ambassador Programme. We welcome

your support in the ‘Right Waste, Right Place’ campaign.

Waste crime pays, we need to stop this.

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