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North East Commercial & Industrial Waste Arisings Survey 2010. James Horne Urban Mines Ltd. Urban Mines. Not-for-profit environmental consultancy established 1995 Yorkshire based but work UK wide Resource management & climate change
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North East Commercial & Industrial Waste Arisings Survey 2010 James Horne Urban Mines Ltd
Urban Mines • Not-for-profit environmental consultancy established 1995 • Yorkshire based but work UK wide • Resource management & climate change • Delivered C&I Arisings surveys in North West (2006 & 2009) and Wales (2008) • Delivered NE survey in partnership with Gardiner & Theobald, Newcastle
Background • North East Sustainable Resources Board (NESRB) in partnership with • RENEW • ONE North East • ANEC • Govt Office - NE • Environment Agency • Tees Valley Unlimited • To complement Defra’s national C&I survey
Need • inform policy making • inform PPS10 sub-regional planning requirements • establish baseline for performance monitoring • identify regional business opportunities • understand waste movements • complement existing North East waste data projects
Survey Methodology • Based upon “Standard Stratified Random Sampling” • Face-to-face and telephone interviews • Target 1,000 business • Data quality checked and grossed with additional data from the national survey
Survey Methodology What was surveyed • All wastes produced on site i.e. outgoing wastes and waste disposed of on site • Hazardous and non-hazardous wastes • “Non-Wastes” such as blast furnace slag and virgin timber
Survey Methodology What was surveyed • The waste management method used and destination • The potential for the waste to be recycled or energy recovered
Survey Methodology What was NOT surveyed • Agriculture, mining & quarrying, construction, waste management sectors • Waste recycled or re-used on the same site it was produced • Waste sent to waste water or effluent treatment on site • Micro-companies (ie. 1-4 employees)
Delivery Statistics • Recruitment: 3,900 business contacted; 63 already taken part in national survey • 1,036 businesses surveyed, 357 by telephone, 679 by survey visit • Data appended from Defra survey 276 businesses • Final dataset 8,020 individual data lines from 1,112 businesses
Results • 2.2 million tonnes/annum
Results • 2.2 million tonnes/annum • 7.1m tpa Northwest of England • 48m tpa whole of England
Waste Destination (UM data only)
Data Application? • Needs Assessment: Forecast waste arisings against waste management facility capacities • Feedstock Availability Forecasts: Modelling arisings catchment area of proposed waste facility
Report • Report available at: • http://nesrb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/NE-Survey-2010-Final-Report.pdf • www.nesrb.org.uk click on ‘Board Projects’
James Horne Market Development Manager, Urban Mines Ltd 01274 699400 James.horne@urbanmines.org.uk www.urbanmines.org.uk