Construction and Demolition Waste
Construction and demolition waste 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".
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 figures for England and the UK are extracted in the table below from the DEFRA Digest [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 | 91.2% | 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 | 58.1 | 91.1% | 57.7 | 53.3 | 92.3% |
| 2016 | 66.2 | 60.2 | 91.0% | 59.6 | 55.0 | 92.1% |