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

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C&D Waste Recovery Rates 2010 to 2016