Digest of Environmental Statistics
Environmental Protection Expenditure by Industry
2001 Survey Results
The Press Release, No. 268/03 dated 8 July 2003 refers to this publication
A research report giving detailed results is available from the links below in PDF format for downloading.
- Executive Summary (PDF 360kb, 10 pages)
- Research Report (PDF 600kb, 101 pages)
- Electronic copies of all the technical annexes are available on request from URS. Email defra_ukenvsurvey@urscorp.com
- Annex 1: Drivers behind participation
- Annex 2: Promotional material
- Annex 3: Website Design
- Annex 4: Cover Letter and Technical Guidance Notes
- Annex 5: Response Codes for Sorting Correspondence
- Annex 6: Methods for Derivation of Standard Error and Confidence Intervals
- Annex 7: Output of Data Analysis
- Annex 8: Detailed Sampling Methodology
- Annex 9: Validation of responses
- Annex 10: Grossing-up procedure
In addition Defra has carried out the additional following analyses
- Additional Industry Comparison
- Sector bulletins providing detailed results by industry and benchmarks. To enable companies compare expenditure with others in their sector.
Industry Comparison Survey
The table below is designed to give an additional dimension to the results, setting the environmental protection expenditure for each industry into context. It is not particularly meaningful for a company to compare themselves against other companies either in their sector or in other sectors simply by looking at total expenditures. Therefore, attempts are made here to standardise the results to take account of company and overall industry sector size.
Table 1 shows environmental protection expenditure per employee and as a percent of turnover. This is an attempt to standardise results by removing the element of company size/industry sector size.
Download Table 1 available as MS Excel format
The electricity and gas production sector had the most expenditure by employee (GBP7,600) and it was also one of the largest spenders as a percent of turnover (8.6 per cent).
The industry with the largest actual environmental protection expenditure was the chemicals and chemical products sector (GBP713m).
For most sectors, those which spent the most per employee also spent the most as a percent of turnover (and vice versa). There are some sectors where there are significant differences include the chemicals and chemical products. These spent second and fourth most per employee but was the lower spenders by turnover.
Table 2 shows environmental protection expenditure split into operating and capital expenditure by media.
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Notes and definitions
Operating expenditure (OPEX) covers in-house expenditure associated with the operation of pollution control abatement equipment and payments to external organisations for environmental services. This includes labour costs, leasing payments and maintenance costs for equipment and payments made to others for the treatment and disposal of waste.
End-of-pipe capital expenditure (CAPEX) relates to expenditure on end-of-pipe pollution control equipment, which became operational in 2001. End-of-pipe equipment is used to treat, handle, measure or dispose of emissions and wastes from production and includes, for example, filter presses, waste water treatment plants and tanks for storing waste.
Integrated capital expenditure on environmental protection relates new or modified production facilities, which have been designed so that environmental protection is an integrated part of the process. Examples include installations for reducing water use or reuse of water and installations for the reuse of waste gas.
Notes
This data has large confidence intervals associated with them so the results should be treated with caution. As the survey becomes more established and the results more reliable it is hoped that more complex analyses can be made available.
Sector Bulletins
Bulletins for each industry SIC grouping contain key information to assist companies wishing to benchmark their performance in this area are provided from the links below. As the survey becomes more established and the results more reliable it is hoped that more complex analyses can be made available.
- SIC 10-14: Mining and Quarrying (PDF)
- SIC 15-16: Manufacture of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Products (PDF)
- SIC 17-19: Manufacture of Textiles and Textile Products, Leather and Leather Products (PDF)
- SIC 20: Manufacture of of Wood and Wood Products (PDF)
- SIC 21: Manufacture of Pulp, Paper and Paper Products (PDF)
- SIC 22: Publishing and printing (PDF)
- SIC 23: Manufacture of Coke, Refined Petroleum Products and Nuclear Fuel (PDF)
- SIC 24: Manufacture of Chemicals, Chemical Products and Man-made Fibres (PDF)
- SIC 25: Manufacture of Rubber and Plastic Products (PDF)
- SIC 26: Manufacture of Other Non-metallic Mineral Products (PDF)
- SIC 27: Manufacture of Basic Metals (PDF 26kb)
- SIC 28: Manufacture of Fabricated Metal Products (PDF 26kb)
- SIC 29-31: Manufacture of Machinery and Equipment, Office Machinery and Apparatus (PDF)
- SIC 30-33: Manufacture of Electrical and Optical Equipment (PDF)
- SIC 34-35: Manufacture of Transport Equipment (PDF)
- SIC 36: Manufacturing not Elsewhere Classified (PDF)
- SIC 40: Electricity, Gas, Steam and Hot Water Supply (PDF)
- SIC 41: Collection, Purification and Water Distribution (PDF)
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Page last modified: 16 September 2003
Page published: 8 July 2003