Construction and Demolition 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 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% |
References
- ↑ UK Statistics on Waste 2019 updating some of the 2018 Digest with 2017 data