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 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 2000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.

Soil

Below is a list of local authorities that sends more than 2000 tonnes of this material to a single waste operator.