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Pollution Inventory

Pollution Inventory

Summary

There are eight downloadable files for this data; for the years 2013 to 2022 from the resource links. The Pollution Inventory (PI) has been developed to collate information on annual mass releases of specified substances to air controlled waters and sewers as well as quantities of waste transferred off site from large industrial sites regulated by the Agency. This replaced the Chemical Release Inventory (CRI) in 1998 and is sometimes referred to as the Inventory of Sources and Releases (ISR). The reporting requirements for the PI encompass emissions from the whole of the authorisation license or permit. This includes non-point sources and fugitive emissions (e.g. leaks) along with the specific release points (point sources e.g. chimneys). All authorisations for large industrial sites (i.e. those under IPPC and now EPR) have a condition requiring the annual reporting of releases of a core (reportable) list of substances and groups of substances. These are substances considered to be important in relation to environmental protection.

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Use limitation statement

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Licence

Environment Agency Conditional Licence

Attribution statement

Use constraints

Special conditions:

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Technical information

Update frequency

annually

Lineage

Permitted companies return data on the quantities of various substances they have released over the year.

Spatial information

Coordinate reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Geographic extent

Latitude from: 50 to 55.8
Longitude from: -5.7 to 1.8

Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

695ac7e1-d465-11e4-abfc-f0def148f590

Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 January 2004

Revision date

30 April 2024

Publication date