Note: [1] Does not include energy supplied to customers but includes conversion losses from electricity generation
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1970 |
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1990 |
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Strategy |
Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: ONS
Note: [1] Does not include water put into public supply except for leakage
Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: ONS
Note: [1] Agricultural waste includes both natural and non-natural waste
Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: Environment Agency, Defra
- The service sector generates 72 per cent of GVA, the manufacturing sector 17 per cent and the electricity, gas and water supply sector 2 per cent. They each account for around one third of energy use.
- The electricity and water supply sectors accounts for more than half of water use (mainly cooling water for power stations, much of which is returned, and leakage from water supply) but only 2 per cent of GVA.
- The manufacturing and agricultural (mostly fish farming) sectors each account for about one fifth of water use. Manufacturing contributes about one fifth of GVA and agriculture one per cent.
- The service industry generates under 10 per cent of waste but over two thirds of total GVA. Mining and agriculture generate over half of total waste but only 3 per cent of GVA.
- QoLC (1999) also proposed an indicator for hazardous emissions by sector. A suitable aggregate measure for hazardous emissions has not been developed.