Soil, Rubble, Hardcore

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Soil, Rubble, Hardcore is the general description used by Local Authorities and WDF for the Inert Waste deposited at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) which is then sent for processing into a Secondary Aggregate or for disposal, for example in an Inert Landfill. Soil, Rubble, Hardcore includes bricks, blocks, slates, tiles, rubble, paving slabs, concrete, gravel, tarmac, stones, soil, sand, and sanitary ware (ceramic toilets, sinks, pedestals etc)[1].

Overview

Whilst Soil, Rubble, Hardcore captures the WDF description, in terms of EWC references there are wider categories captured in a different way, and this is further expanded in WikiWaste on the page on Inert Waste. When considering these codes the majority of these waste types arise from Construction and Demolition Waste and Mining And Quarrying Waste with a large proportion sent for processing into Secondary Aggregate. In this context the amount of tonnage from Local Authorities is relatively small in comparison.

Macro Tonnages

The most recent information published by DEFRA [2] is based on 2016 data and identifies a number of categories that include Soil, Rubble, Hardcore, which are primarily Construction and Demolition Waste and Mining And Quarrying Waste (tonnage reported originating from households is reported within Household Waste figures by DEFRA). The main tonnages therefore 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

This means that the Soil, Rubble, Hardcore reported by Local Authorities is reported under a grouped reporting category in the DEFRA digest figures, normally 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, 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}}}

References

  1. Devon County Council, 2018. Chargeable waste Devon - Waste and Recycling. [online] [Accessed 5 Dec. 2019].
  2. UK Statistics on Waste 2020