"Figure 3: Businesses within the manufacturing industry accounted for most environmental protection expenditure (EPE) in 2018","" "Environmental protection expenditure by type and industry, UK, 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Businesses are classified as operating in a particular industry according to the [Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/ukstandardindustrialclassificationofeconomicactivities/uksic2007). 2. Estimates are rounded to the nearest £0.1 billion in the chart but are available to the nearest £1 million in the datasets accompanying this release. 3. Where expenditure is less than £0.1 billion, it is not shown in the chart but can be found in the [2018 dataset](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/epeindustries). 4. Sub-totals may not sum to totals because of rounding. 5. Electricity, gas and steam also includes air conditioning supply." "Unit","£ billions" "","" "","Integrated capital expenditure","End-of-pipe capital expenditure","In-house operating expenditure","External operating expenditure" "Total EPE by type","0","0.3","0.5","1.6" "Manufacturing","0","0.2","0.4","0.9" "Mining and quarrying","0","0.1","0.1","0.6" "Electricity gas and steam","0","0","0.1","0.1"