The following table indicates the number of in-vessel and windrow composting sites that are licensed in each district in each Environment Agency region. Where there are n/a entries, this indicates that the site is currently in the process of surrendering its permit.
Prior to standard permits being introduced, the Environment Agency’s permit recording system did not distinguish between in-vessel and windrow composting and it would therefore incur disproportionate cost to collate figures for in-vessel alone.
Agency area District Total Anglian: Central Area Aylesbury Vale 1 Bedford 2 Breckland 1 East Cambridgeshire 1 Forest Heath 1 Huntingdonshire 3 King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 1 Milton Keynes 1 South Bedfordshire 2 South Cambridgeshire 1 South Northamptonshire 1 St. Edmundsbury 2 n/a 3 Anglian: Central Area total 20 Anglian: Eastern Area Basildon 1 Broadland 2 Chelmsford 1 Colchester 1 Ipswich 1 Maldon 1 North Norfolk 1 Rochford 1 South Norfolk 2 Suffolk Coastal 2 Waveney 1 n/a 1 Anglian: Eastern Area total 15 Anglian: Northern Area Daventry 3 East Lindsey 1 East Northamptonshire 1 Harborough 1 North East Lincolnshire 1 North Lincolnshire 2 Peterborough 1 South Holland 2 South Kesteven 2 Wellingborough 1 West Lindsey 1 Anglian: Northern Area total 16 Midlands: Lower Severn Bridgnorth 1 Forest of Dean 2 North Shropshire 1 Powys 1 Shrewsbury and Atcham 1 Stroud 2 Telford and Wrekin 1 n/a 1 Midlands: Lower Severn total 10 Midlands: Lower Trent Doncaster 2 Erewash 1 Newark and Sherwood 1 North Kesteven 2 North Lincolnshire 1 North West Leicestershire 1 Rotherham 1 Rushcliffe 1 South Derbyshire 2 n/a 1 Midlands: Lower Trent total 13 Midlands: Upper Trent Birmingham 3 Derbyshire Dales 1 Hinckley and Bosworth 1 Lichfield 1 Newcastle-under-Lyme 1 North Warwickshire 1 Rugby 1 Solihull 1 South Staffordshire 3 Stafford 3 Stratford-on-Avon 1 Midlands: Upper Trent total 17 North East: Dales East Riding of Yorkshire 2 Leeds 1 Richmondshire 1 Scarborough 1 Sedgefield 1 Stockton-on-Tees 1 North East: Dales total 7 North East: Northumbria Durham 1 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 South Tyneside 1 Tynedale 1 Wansbeck 2 n/a 3 North East: Northumbria total 9 North East: Ridings Calderdale 1 East Riding of Yorkshire 1 Leeds 1 Sheffield 1 Wakefield 1 North East: Ridings total 5 North West: Central Knowsley 1 Preston 2 Sefton 2 South Ribble 1 North West: Central total 6 North West: Northern Carlisle 2 Eden 1 North West: Northern total 3 North West: Southern Chester 2 Congleton 2 Crewe and Nantwich 2 Halton 1 Knowsley 2 Manchester 2 St. Helens 1 Vale Royal 1 North West: Southern total 13 South West: Cornwall North Cornwall 1 Penwith 1 South West: Cornwall total 2 South West: Devon East Devon 1 Mid Devon 1 South Hams 1 Teignbridge 1 Torridge 1 n/a 1 South West: Devon total 6 South West: North Wessex Bath and North East Somerset 1 North Wiltshire 1 Sedgemoor 1 South Somerset 1 n/a 1 South West: North Wessex total 5 South West: South Wessex Bournemouth 1 Christchurch 1 North Dorset 1 Weymouth and Portland 1 n/a 1 South West: South Wessex total 5 Southern: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Arun 1 Basingstoke and Deane 4 Chichester 2 Fareham 1 Havant 1 Isle of Wight 2 Mid Sussex 1 Salisbury 1 Test Valley 1 n/a 2 Southern: Hampshire and Isle of Wight total 16 Southern: Kent Canterbury 1 Lewes 1 Sevenoaks 2 Shepway 1 Swale 2 Tonbridge and Malling 1 Wealden 1 Southern: Kent total 9 Southern: Sussex n/a 1 Southern: Sussex total 1 Thames: North East Brentwood 1 Enfield 1 Epping Forest 1 Havering 1 Hertsmere 1 Hillingdon 3 Newham 1 North Hertfordshire 2 St. Albans 1 n/a 3 Thames: North East total 15 Thames: South East Bracknell Forest 1 Croydon 1 n/a 3 Thames: South East total 5 Thames: West Cherwell 1 Cotswold 2 South Oxfordshire 1 Vale of White Horse 1 West Berkshire 1 West Oxfordshire 1 Wycombe 2 Thames: West total 9 Wales: Buckley Gwynedd 2 Isle of Anglesey 1 n/a 1 Wales: Buckley total 4 Wales: Cardiff Cardiff 1 Herefordshire, County of 1 Monmouthshire 1 n/a 1 Wales: Cardiff total 4 Wales: Swansea Carmarthenshire 2 Wales: Swansea total 2
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has not had any recent discussions with local authorities on the incorporation of composting into their household waste management strategies.
Composting is one approach for diverting biodegradable material from landfill and local authorities already consider this as part of their management of household waste. This contributes to the good progress being made towards the target set in England's Waste Strategy 2007 to recycle or compost 50 per cent. of household waste by 2020, with annual figures up to the first quarter of 2008-09 showing 35 per cent. of household waste being recycled or composted.