The 2009 series of Seminars and Road Shows touched upon the subject of waste. I was reminded that the UK Construction Industry produces around 100 million tonnes of Construction, Demolition and Excavation waste per annum and that only 50% of this material is regularly recycled with the remainder going into landfill, spread on exempt sites or used as quarry fill. The UK Governments ‘Waste Strategy for England 2007’ sets out critical objectives for waste reduction and resource efficiency and these include to:
- provide the drivers for the sector to improve its economic efficiency by creating less waste from design to demolition
- treat waste as a resource, re-using and recycling more and asking contractors for greater use of recovered material
- improve the economics of the re-use and recycling sector by increasing demand and securing investment in the treatment of waste
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