Collection

Environment statistics

Information on our relationship with and impact on the environment around us.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 1 October 2018
• Last updated: 28 October 2025 — See all updates

Working with our Defra group partner organisations: Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Natural England we produce a wide range of statistics that provide information on our relationship with and impact on the environment around us.

Our Products

Environmental Quality

• Air quality and emissions statistics
• UK and England’s carbon footprint
• Water quality and abstraction statistics

Resources and waste

• Waste and recycling statistics
• England’s material footprint
• Carrier bag charge: summary of data in England
• Litter and littering in England: data dashboard

Nature

• Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Access to nature statistics

Cross cutting

• Outcome Indicator Framework for the 25 Year Environment Plan

Other publications

• Funding for flooding and coastal erosion
• Peat usage in growing media production

Historic publications

• Environmental protection expenditure
• Digest of waste and resources statistics
• England natural environment indicators
• Sustainable development indicators

Our partners within Defra group

• Environment Agency (EA)
• Forestry Commission
• Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
• Natural England (NE)

Other sources of information

• Welsh government
• Scottish government
• Northern Ireland
• Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• ONS Environmental accounts

Developing our portfolio

Our environmental portfolio of official statistics is large and diverse. We will continue to develop our understanding of user needs to find the best balance between compendiums of environmental statistics, regular statistical releases on specific topics and supporting data releases.

Looking further to the future, we believe that technological development can bring radical change to what we measure and how we measure it and we will continue to track the potential of environmental monitoring approaches from Earth observation to e-dna.

Published 1 October 2018

Last updated 28 October 2025 + show all updates

1. 28 October 2025

   The list of publications has been updated.

2. 29 May 2025

   Access to nature stats added.

3. 22 July 2021

   England's material footprint added to Environment collection page

4. 9 March 2020

   Removed signpost to Office for Statistics Regulation User Engagement Survey as this has now closed.

5. 22 January 2020

   Amendment made to signpost Office for Statistics Regulation User Engagement Survey.

6. 25 October 2018

   Change to group name.

7. 25 October 2018

   Annual publication update.

8. 1 October 2018

   First published.