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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

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.

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.

Duty of Care: The ‘Glue’ ! Environmental Waste Permitting Regs E&W Regs Exports 2010 2011 Carrier, Broker Section 33 Duty of Care EPA90 Dealer Section 34 2011 Public Code of Haz waste regs Registers Practice 2005& 2015 2016

Obligations on ALL holders of Waste • 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

The Waste Chain in 1990

The waste chain in 2018!!!

Duty of Care- Tackling Waste Crime Waste Crime is not victimless : 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 • 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 !

Fly-Tipping £209m

Serious Breach of Permit & Exemptions £87m

Illegal Exports £30m

What’s going wrong? Carriers • First point of contact for waste producers • No competency requirements or rigorous identity checks • 180,000 registered waste carriers, brokers and dealers

Exemptions • 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

Duty of Care • Ramp up enforcement • Electronic transfer? • Raise Awareness

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

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.

RWRP Campaign Survey Survey of 1000 SME’s in construc tion, agriculture and retail sectors:

Active Engagement • 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.

A Network of RWRP Ambassadors determined to tackle waste crime

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

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.

Thank you ! Website: www.rightwasterightplace.com Email: info@rightwasterightplace.com Follow: @RWRP2016 Like: info@rightwasterightplace.com ESA: www.esauk.org