"Figure 4: The majority of output of environmental protection services from businesses is related to wastewater management, CEPA 2","" "Specialist and other businesses output by Classification of Environmental Protection Activities, UK, 2010 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Activities by specialist businesses, which undertake environmental protection activities as their primary purpose, and other (non-specialist) businesses are included. The [dataset](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/environmentalprotectionexpenditureaccounts) gives separate estimates of output by these two groups. In this bulletin, as specialist businesses contribute the majority of all output and EPE, the two groups are combined. 2. This bulletin includes separate commentary on other businesses, in Sections 3 and 4. 3. The category ""Other"" includes expenditure on the protection of ambient air and climate, protection of soil or groundwater, noise abatement, protection of biodiversity, protection against radiation, research and development, and other activities." "Unit","£ billions" "","" "","Other","Wastewater management","Waste management","Total" "2010","0.7","8.7","2.1","11.4" "2011","0.7","8.8","2.5","12.0" "2012","0.8","9.1","2.9","12.8" "2013","0.7","9.5","4.6","14.9" "2014","1.0","9.6","4.8","15.4" "2015","1.0","9.6","6.3","16.9" "2016","0.9","9.7","6.0","16.5" "2017","1.0","9.6","6.4","17.0" "2018","1.0","9.8","6.5","17.4" "2019","1.0","10.0","6.9","17.9"