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Currently, over half a million tonnes of IBA goes to landfill each year in England and Wales. However, as recovery processes have improved this material can now be processed and recycled back into applications such as aggregate replacement for sub-base road construction, bulk fill, concrete block manufacture or concrete grouting<ref name="foo" />. | Currently, over half a million tonnes of IBA goes to landfill each year in England and Wales. However, as recovery processes have improved this material can now be processed and recycled back into applications such as aggregate replacement for sub-base road construction, bulk fill, concrete block manufacture or concrete grouting<ref name="foo" />. | ||
The graph below displays the incinerator bottom ash produced as a percentage of the total [[residual waste]] feedstock being processed by UK [[Energy from Waste]] facilities, and how this has changed over recent years. | |||
[[File:IBA production from EfWs.png|800px|frame|center|IBA produced from Energy from Waste processes, Graph derived from Tolvik, 2019<ref>Tolvik Consulting, 2019. [https://www.tolvik.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Tolvik-EfW-Statistics-2018-Report_July-2019-final-amended-version.pdf UK Energy from Waste Statistics – 2018. Gloucestershire.][online] </ref>.]] | |||
==Authorities Disposing of Over 2000t== | ==Authorities Disposing of Over 2000t== | ||