Brighton & Hove City Council is a Waste and Minerals Planning Authority and works in partnership with East Sussex County Council and the South Downs National Park Authority on waste and minerals planning policy.
The three authorities adopted the:
A review of the Waste and Minerals Plan is currently at the public examination stage, with a focus on the supply of minerals.
Waste
There are 4 main types of waste.
Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW)
Household waste comprises approximately 95% of local authority collected waste, the remainder coming from sources such as street sweepings and public parks and gardens.
Commercial and Industrial Waste (C&I)
This is produced from shops, food outlets, businesses, and manufacturing activities and comprises about 27% of waste in the Plan Area as a whole.
Construction, Demolition and Excavation Waste (CDEW)
Produced from building activity, with a considerable proportion of it is considered to be inert. CDEW comprises an estimated 51% of all waste arisings.
Other wastes
This includes hazardous waste, liquid waste (other than wastewater), and wastes arising from the agricultural sector.
The City Council monitors the quantity of local authority collected waste (LACW) but it does not directly monitor the quantity of commercial and industrial waste or construction, demolition and excavation waste arisings.
The best estimate for C&I waste arisings for East Sussex and Brighton & Hove in 2018 was 516,420 tonnes, the best estimate for annual arisings of CDEW remains 906,000 tonnes. Further detail can be found in the East Sussex Waste and Minerals AMR.
Table 3: Local Authority Collected Waste in Brighton & Hove by management type
ESCC 2020
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2015/16
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2016/17
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2017/18
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2018/19
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2019/20
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2020/21
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2021/22
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Reuse
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2,693
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3,119
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3,164
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3,469
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3,546
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2,754
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3,218
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Composted
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3,177
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4,169
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3,083
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5,684
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5,534
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4,774
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5,977
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Recycled
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21,947
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22,869
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24,219
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21,555
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21,359
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22,710
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21,452
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Disposal to Land
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4,469
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5,234
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5,824
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4,273
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2,688
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1,707
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571
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Energy Recovery
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76,315
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74,749
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75,130
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76,198
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75,767
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78,080
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78,279
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Key figures for Local Authority Collected Waste in Brighton and Hove are:
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109,497 tonnes of household LACW were produced in Brighton & Hove in 2019/20, a reduction on the 111,179 tonnes in the previous monitoring year
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the majority of waste (71%) in 2021/22 was sent for energy recovery, a slight increase on the previous two monitoring years
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the amount of landfilled waste continues to reduce and represented only 0.52% of all LACW which is in contrast to 59 % sent to landfill in 2007/08
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28% was recycled, composted or reused, a similar proportion to recent monitoring years
Minerals
Brighton & Hove does not have any active mineral extraction sites and the level of production in East Sussex is very low by regional standards. Actual production figures are bound by confidentiality constraints, caused by particular commercial sensitivities due to the small number of operators in place.
National policy is to increase the use of secondary and recycled aggregates as an alternative to reducing reserves of primary aggregates and this is reflected in Waste and Minerals Plan Policy WMP3. Background work undertaken indicates that capacity in the plan area for secondary and recycled aggregates is currently around 310,000 tonnes per annum.
Current secondary/recycled aggregates facilities in the plan area and further explanation and detailed figures for East Sussex and Brighton & Hove can be found in the East Sussex Waste and Minerals AMR.
It is a requirement of the NPPF to produce an annual Local Aggregate Assessment (LAA) to assess the demand for and supply of aggregates in their area. The latest Local Aggregate Assessment was produced jointly with East Sussex County Council and the South Downs National Park Authority and published in May 2022.