Construction and Demolition (C&D) Wastes
Construction and Demolition Waste is defined in the Waste Framework Directive as "waste generated by construction and demolition activities". It is a subset of Construction, Demolition and Excavation (CD&E) Waste (excluding the preominantly soil-based excavation wastes from its classification).
Tonnage Detail
The tonnage breakdown of C&D wastes in WikIWaste is captured in the CD&E Waste page. Also in this page are links to other pages with a C&D origin, for example Plasterboard.
Construction and Demolition Waste Target - UK
Under the Waste Framework Directive there was a target for the recovery of non-hazardous C&D Wastes to be 70% by 2020 which has been exceeded by the UK.
Performance Against Target(s)
The following table summarises the DEFRA data[1] reported to 2020 for the UK and to 2022 for England.
United Kingdon | England | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Generation (Mt) | Recovery (Mt) | Recovery Rate (%) | Generation (Mt) | Revovery (Mt) | Recovery Rate (%) |
2010 | 59.2 | 53.1 | 89.7% | 53.6 | 49.4 | 92.2% |
2011 | 60.2 | 55 | 91.4% | 54.9 | 50.8 | 92.5% |
2012 | 55.8 | 50.8 | 91.1% | 50.5 | 46.4 | 92.0% |
2013 | 57.1 | 52 | 91.2% | 51.7 | 47.6 | 92.0% |
2014 | 61.5 | 56.3 | 91.5% | 55.9 | 51.7 | 92.4% |
2015 | 63.8 | 58 | 91% | 57.7 | 53.3 | 92.3% |
2016 | 66.2 | 60 | 91.7% | 59.6 | 55 | 92.1% |
2017 | 68.7 | 63.6 | 92.5% | 62.2 | 57.9 | 93.1% |
2018 | 67.8 | 63.2 | 93.1% | 61.4 | 57.5 | 93.8% |
2019 | 68.2 | 63.7 | 93.3% | 62.3 | 58.3 | 93.6% |
2020 | 59.4 | 55 | 92.6% | 53.9 | 50.3 | 93.2% |
2021 | - | - | - | 61.1 | 57.2 | 93.6% |
2022 | - | - | - | 63.0 | 59.4 | 93.4% |
