Soil, Rubble, Hardcore

Overview

Soil, rubble and hardcore includes bricks, blocks, slates, tiles, rubble, paving slabs, concrete, gravel, tarmac, stones, soil, sand, and sanitary ware (ceramic toilets, sinks, pedestals etc). In terms of EWC references further detail is expanded in Inert Waste.

The large majority of this material is the result of construction and demolition and mining and quarrying, with household waste representing a reletively small tonnage in comparison.

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Macro Tonnages

The most recent information published by DEFRA is based on 2016 data and identifies a number of categories that include soil, rubble and hardcore. These include:

Reported by DEFRA as Generated in 2016	tonnes
'mineral waste from construction and demolition'	63,618,634
'other mineral wastes'	17,501,418
'mineral waste from waste treatment & stabilized waste'	45,584
'soils'	58,668,341

In all cases these categories exclude any tonnage reported originating from households.

This means that the soil, rubble and hardcore reported by local authorities is reported under a grouped reporting category in the DEFRA digest figures, most likely as part of the larger tonnage of 'household and similar waste' category that totaled 15,108,682 tonnes of household category tonnage alone in the UK in 2016 (also summarized in the page on UK Waste Tonnage.

The macro numbers above therefore do not breakdown the component elements of soil, rubble and hardcore in respect of household waste, but the following headers in the page are the materials as handled by local authorities and as reported through WasteDataFlow.

Rubble

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 20,000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes
Greater Manchester WDA (MBC)	Source segregated recyclate	Reuse (qu35)	J Dickinson & Sons ( Horwich ) Ltd	Transfer Station, Crown Lane, Station Road, Horwich, Lancashire	Rubble	40,219.41	{{{date}}}
Worcestershire County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Dew Mr David & Dew Mr Jonathan	Unit 100, Blackpole Road, Blackpole Trading Estate, Worcester, Worcestershire	Rubble	33,990.98	{{{date}}}
Merseyside WDA (MBC)	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Grundy Skip Hire Ltd	Halebank Ind Est, Pickerings Road, Halebank, Widnes, Cheshire	Rubble	31,623.53	{{{date}}}

Aggregates

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 1000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes
West Lothian	Source segregated recyclate	Other Method	Not Available	Not Available	Aggregates	9,222.83	{{{date}}}
Edinburgh, City of	Residual waste	Non-hazardous landfill	Not Available	Not Available	Aggregates	5,216.90	{{{date}}}
Falkirk	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Not Available	Not Available	Aggregates	2,603.39	{{{date}}}
Pembrokeshire County Council	Residual waste	Road and Gully Waste Treatment Facility	Lawrence Bros	Lawrence T & G Popehill, Halfway House, Pope Hill, Johnston, Pembrokeshire [Wv1Law009/0/12.1]	Aggregates	1,883.64	{{{date}}}
Vale of Glamorgan Council	Residual waste	Road and Gully Waste Treatment Facility	Neal Soil Suppliers Ltd	Ty To Maen Farm, Newton Rd, Rumney, Cardiff, Glamorgan	Aggregates	1,848.03	{{{date}}}
City and County of Swansea	Source segregated recyclate	Reprocessor - recycling (qu19)	Other/Exempt	Neath Abbey Wharf, Neath, Neath Port Talbot [Wv1Der002/0/12.1] SA10 6BL	Aggregates	1,825.84	{{{date}}}
Torfaen CBC	Residual waste	Road and Gully Waste Treatment Facility	Neal Soil Suppliers Ltd	Ty To Maen Farm, Newton Rd, Rumney, Cardiff, Glamorgan	Aggregates	1,098.46	{{{date}}}

Soil

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 10000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Authority	Stream	Facility	Operator	Address	Material	Tonnes
Cambridgeshire County Council	Source segregated recyclate	Reuse (qu35)	Ameycespa (East) Ltd	Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire	Soil	10,305.95	{{{date}}}