Environment Agency – Action Harvey Bradshaw Executive Director of Environment & Business
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 UNCLASSIFIED 2
ACCEPTABLE COMPLIANCE RANGE LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE Proactive ownership Step back and allow Trail-blazers ownership Go beyond compliance Positive(constructive) ownership Support towards full compliance Generally compliant UNACCEPTABLE COMPLIANCE RANGE Generally non-compliant Unaware or obstructive Inform and educate – backed up by enforcement Criminals No intention Total disregard of complying Investigate, prosecute and disrupt to stop this activity UNCLASSIFIED 3
Permitted site 1 – advice and guidance Before After
Permitted site 2 – formal enforcement action Before After
In year comparison of DEF numbers 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.
We take action against non compliant sites UNCLASSIFIED 7
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
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
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 odour Duty of Care – ESA “Right waste-Right place” together with EA toolbox of interventions Tracking waste in illegal sites and following the supply chain
We reduce the number of active high risk illegal waste sites UNCLASSIFIED 11
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
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
Massive fines for illegal tipping offences 20 November 2015 Three businessmen ordered to pay more 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. UNCLASSIFIED 14
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
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 UNCLASSIFIED 16
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