This report presents provisional information on the quantities of local authority collected municipal waste managed in Northern Ireland. It provides information on the quantities and rates of local authority collected waste arisings, sent for preparing for reuse, for dry recycling, composting, energy recovery and sent to landfill. Some of these measurements are key performance indicators. These are used to assess progress towards achieving waste strategy targets and where appropriate this is highlighted in the tables and charts.

Local authorities who regulate businesses are usually district or borough councils. If an area has only one council (a unitary council) then that’s the regulator. The Port Health Authority
may be the regulator in port areas.

This guidance helps local authorities:

• follow statutory guidance under regulation 64 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR)
• understand the EPR’s main functions, procedures and terminology

Any businesses whose premises produce pollution are known as “installations”. These installations are one of the following:

• part A2, sectors regulated under integrated pollution prevention and control, known as Local Authority Industrial Pollution Prevention and Control (LA-IPPC)
• part B, known as Local Air Pollution Prevention and Control (LAPPC)

Statutory process guidance (PG) notes on best available techniques (BAT) for the main sectors regulated to control their air emissions (‘Part B’ activities).

Statutory sector guidance (SG) notes which set out best available techniques (BAT).

The document will present Forestry Commission England’s six headline indicators: number of high priority forest pests in the UK Plant Health Risk Register, percentage of known tree felling that is carried out with Forestry Commmission approval, percentage of woodland in active management, area of woodland, cost of managing the Public Forest Estate and number of private sector businesses operating on the Public Forest Estate.