Environmental performance of the sector Dr. Gillian Pratt Director - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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 in pollution incidents All serious pollution incidents (including activities we regulate and those we don't) in England 1200 1000 Number of incidents 800 600 400 200 0 2000 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013 Farming Water Waste management facilities Other industry Other Air Land Water Amenity UNCLASSIFIED 2

Serious pollution incidents: top 5 sectors in England Incidents to water Amenity incidents 100 140 80 In 2014, 10% of pollution incidents fromfarming 60 activities were from farms 120 with permits, compared to 40 12% in 2013 Number of incidents 100 20 11% 0 amenity 80 All farms Intensive Farms 85% water 60 100% water 40 90% amenity 89% 88% amenity 20 amenity 0 Farming (all sites) Water companies Waste treatment Biowaste Landfill (non-hazardous) treatment Incidents to land and non- Amenity incidents amenity incidents to air (note: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 not all incidents to air are Incidents to water amenity incidents) UNCLASSIFIED 3

Waste fires

Improvements since 2013 Total serious pollution incidents Number of category 1 & 2 Pollution Incidents by reported date - 12 month total to the end of the period shown 800 700 600 500 400 697 604 300 599 588 552 531 531 481 200 100 0 2010/11 @ Q4 2011/12 @ Q4 2012/13 @ Q4 2013/14 @ Q4 2014/15 @ Q4 2015/16 @ Q1 2015/16 @ Q2 2015/16 @ Q3 UNCLASSIFIED 5

Illegal Waste Sites Illegal waste sites in England, 2009/10 to 2014/15 1400 1200 1011 1000 Number of sites 820 800 680 618 598 556 600 400 200 0 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 New sites found Sites still active at the end of March Illegal activity stopped UNCLASSIFIED 6

Performance of permitted sites Persistent poor performers EPR permits rated for poor compliance (all sectors) Permits in compliance bands D, E or F in England, 2007 to 2014 in 2013 and 2014 800 40 (Percentage D, E and F permits) (5.9) Our approach to categorising sites 700 35 Number of permits refused or revoked Waste treatment (metals recycling), 17 (of 2641 permits) where there was no compliance check changed in 2013 (4.1) 600 30 Biowaste treatment, 17 (of 651 permits) Number of permits (3.8) (4.4) 500 25 All other industry, 34 (of 4427 permits) (3.8) (3.3) (2.9) (3.1) 400 20 300 15 Landfill, 52 (of 2363 permits) 200 10 100 5 Waste treatment (non hazardous), 0 0 109 (of 4083 permits) 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Band D Band E Band F (poor) EPR permits refused EPR permits revoked (on operator competence grounds)

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 UNCLASSIFIED 8