Digest of Environmental Statistics
Environmental Protection Expenditure by Industry
2002 Survey Results
The Press Release, No. 328/04 dated 19 August 2004 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, 13 pages)
- Research Report (PDF 2350kb, 97 pages)
- The technical annexes are as follows:
- Annex 1: Cover Letter and Technical Guidance Notes (PDF 185kb)
- Annex 2: Detailed Sampling Methodology (PDF 195kb)
- Annex 3: Validation of responses (PDF 70kb)
- Annex 4: Copies of Promotional Materials (PDF 65kb)
- Annex 5: Response Codes for Sorting Correspondence (PDF 50kb)
- Annex 6: Drivers behind participation (PDF 50kb)
- Annex 7: Output of Data Analysis (PDF 430kb)
- Annex 8: Grossing-up procedure (PDF 75kb)
- Annex 9: Methods for Derivation of Standard Error and Confidence Intervals (PDF 55kb)
- Annex 10: Detailed Results Tables (PDF 290kb)
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 to 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 (GBP5,000).
The industry sector with the largest actual environmental protection expenditure was the food, beverages and tobacco products (GBP495m).
Table 2 shows environmental protection expenditure split into operating and capital expenditure by media.
Download Table 2 available as MS Excel format
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 2002. 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 Sector
- SIC 15 & 16: Food, Beverages and Tobacco Products Sector
- SIC 17-19: Textiles, Clothing and Leather Products Sector
- SIC 20: Wood and Wood Products Sector
- SIC 21 & 22: Pulp, Paper, Printing and Publishing Sector
- SIC 23: Coke, Petroleum and Nuclear Fuel Sector
- SIC 24: Chemicals and Chemical Products Sector
- SIC 25: Rubber and Plastics Sector
- SIC 26: Other Non-Metallic Minerals Sector
- SIC 27 & 28: Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal Products Sector
- SIC 29-31: Machinery and Equipment, and Office and Electrical Machinery and Apparatus Sector
- SIC 32 & 33: Radio, TV and Comms, and Medical, Precision and Optical Sector
- SIC 34 & 35: Motor Vehicles and Other Transport Equipment Sector
- SIC 36: Furniture Manufacture Sector
- SIC 40-41: Electricity, Gas and Water Supply Sector
Previous Survey Results - Sector Bulletins for year 2001
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