Construction and Demolition Waste
Construction and Demolition Waste (C&D Waste) generated in the UK in 2018 was 67.8 million tonnes. It is defined within Directive 2018/851 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (the Waste Framework Directive) as "waste generated by construction and demolition activities". Construction, Demolition and Excavation waste (mining waste) (CD&E Waste) includes excavation materials, which took the total CD&E Waste in the UK to 137.8 million tonnes in 2018, with a further 14.8 million tonnes of mining waste.
Under the Waste Framework Directive there is a target to for the Recovery of non-hazardous C&D waste of 70% by 2020, which the UK is currently meeting even taking into consideration the high level of uncertainty around the absolute tonnage figures. The large proportion of this waste is used as a Secondary Aggregate in construction. The figures for England and the UK are extracted in the table below from the DEFRA Digest for C&D Waste[1].
| UK | England | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation | Recovery | Recovery Rate | Generation | Recovery | Recovery Rate | |
| M tonnes | M tonnes | %ge | M tonnes | M tonnes | %ge | |
| 2010 | 59.2 | 53.1 | 89.7% | 53.6 | 49.4 | 92.2% |
| 2011 | 60.2 | 55.0 | 91.4% | 54.9 | 50.8 | 92.5% |
| 2012 | 55.8 | 50.8 | 91.1% | 50.5 | 46.4 | 92.0% |
| 2013 | 57.1 | 52.0 | 91.2% | 51.7 | 47.6 | 92.0% |
| 2014 | 61.5 | 56.3 | 91.5% | 55.9 | 51.7 | 92.4% |
| 2015 | 63.8 | 58.0 | 91.0% | 57.7 | 53.3 | 92.3% |
| 2016 | 66.2 | 60.0 | 91.7% | 59.6 | 55.0 | 92.1% |
| 2017 | 68.7 | 63.0 | 91.5% | 62.2 | 57.9 | 93.1% |
| 2018 | 67.8 | 62.6 | 92.3% | 61.4 | 57.5 | 93.8% |