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Resource Efficiency: Industry Action Plans. BEST 20th October 2010

Measuring Industry Progress

Katherine Adams, BRE Secretariat to Strategic Forum’s Subgroup on Waste

WRAP Signatory Report, 9th March 2011

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Outline

• 1. The Waste Subgroup
• 2. Introducing the target
• 3. Quick overview of the methodology used for measuring CD&E

waste to landfill

• 4. The 2008 baseline
• 5. Progress in 2009
• 6. Our Action Plan
• 7. Going forward

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SCTG Waste Subgroup

• CECA ‐ Osborne
• UKCG – Kier Group plc,

Construct UK, Bovis Lend Lease

• Construction Products

Association ‐ Jewsons

• RIBA – Powell Dobson,

ECDA

• NSCC
• NFDC
• MBE KTN
• WRAP
• EA
• DEFRA
• BIS
• BRE
• Across the Construction Supply Chain approach
• Chair – Peter Johnson (Kier Group plc)
• Deputy Chair – Charlie Law (BAM Construct UK)
• Secretariat – Katherine Adams from BRE, funded by WRAP
• Meeting since January 2009.

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Waste target

‘By 2012, a 50% reduction of construction, demolition and excavation (CD&E) waste to landfill compared to 2008’

Excludes aggregates used for backfilling quarries, site restoration or legitimately spread

• n exempt sites.

England only

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Questions asked

• How do we determine the 2008 baseline?
• How do we ensure that there is a consistent and robust

methodology to measure progress?

• How much waste does the target equate to?
• How do we ensure that the target is relative to construction

activity? – Discussed by the Waste Subgroup – Key dialogue with Defra, Environment Agency and WRAP

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Outcomes

• Methodology report

– Provides detailed methodology – Assumptions, weaknesses and risks are made clear – Repeatable – Extra information on CD&E waste data collection and future developments – Background to the work

• Baseline report

– Figures for 2008

• Report for 2009 (to be published shortly)

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Scope

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Summary

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The figures

WRAP Signatory Report, 9th March 2011 20.28MT 15.31MT 8.59MT 0.49MT 3.46MT 58.7MT Red = 2009 White = 2008 figures (baseline)

9.69 million tonnes

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Million tonnes 2008 2009 % absolute change % relative change

Known classified CD&E waste received at landfill 20.58 15.31 ‐26% ‐18% CD&E waste beneficially reused 11.28 8.59 ‐24% ‐16% CD&E waste landfilled from WTS etc* 3.99 3.46 ‐13% 0% CD&E waste that is removed from landfill 0.74 0.49 ‐34% 0%

2009 performance against the 2008 baseline year

* CD&E waste from waste transfer stations, treatment plants and metal recycling sites, in accordance with methodology. WRAP Signatory Report, 9th March 2011 WRAP Signatory Report, 9th March 2011

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The baseline relative to construction output

• In 2008, 12.55 million tonnes of CD&E waste sent to landfill
• Equivalent to 118 tonnes per £ million construction output for 2008 (original

baseline)

• Revised baseline to negate influence of inflation is: 133 tonnes per £ million

construction output for 2008

• Target is to reduce by 6.275 million tonnes by 2012 equivalent to 66.5 tonnes

per £ million construction output

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• About to be published
• 9.69 million tonnes landfilled (compared to 12.55 million tonnes

in 2008); absolute reduction of 23%

• Overall amount of CD&E waste entering waste facilities has

decreased

• Against construction activity:

– decreased to 116 tonnes/£ million construction output, equivalent to a fall of 13%.

2009 figures

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32% 7% 0% 0% 0% 3% 48% 2% 1% 0% 2% 0% 0% 4% 1%

Composition of CD&E waste landfilled in 2009 In England

CD&E waste from waste transfer, treatment and metal recycling Concrete, bricks, tiles and ceramics Wood, glass and plastic Bituminous products Metal Soils and stones (hazardous) Soils and stones Dregding spoil (inlcuding hazardous) Track ballast Insulation Construction materials containing asbestos Gyspum Hazardous C&D waste Mixed C&D waste Inert - rock and stone

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Progress

• Good progress made so far
• Soils are still a large amount of the waste going to landfill (nearly

50%)

• More actions needed to reduce waste going to landfill from waste

transfer stations and treatment plants

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• To be published shortly
• Agreed Actions across each part of the construction supply chain:

– Clients and their advisors – Designers – Manufacturers – Distributors – Contractors (main and specialist) – Demolition – Waste management industry

• Includes details of existing initiatives/actions

Action Plan

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Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Lack of good quality information on CD&E waste Promotion and incentivisation for resource efficiency Effective communication across the supply chain Setting requirements through the procurement process Designing out waste Following the waste hierarchy The amount of excavation materials generated Increasing resource efficiency

• f construction products

Onsite conditions Lack of end markets for certain materials Waste Management infrastructure Increasing awareness to SMEs Government & Regulators       Clients & their advisors      Designers       Manufacturers      Suppliers     Contractors         Demolition      Waste management       WRAP Signatory Report, 9th March 2011

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Example of Actions (to be agreed)

Action Lead Other parts of the supply chain/stakeholders

Encourage all contractors to measure and report C,D&E waste in accordance with the WRAP/UKCG/CECA reporting guidelines by 2012 UKCG CECA, NSCC, NFB, FMB, NHBC, Volume House Builders, SMEs Publish criteria for a low waste construction site by end of 2011 UKCG Develop resources to help specialist contractors identify and reduce waste and subsequent costs arising from their activities by end of 2012 WRAP NSCC

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• Publications available

– www.strategicforum.org.u k/waste.shtml – www.wrap.org.uk/constru ction – www.constructionproduct s.org.uk

• Annual reporting of progress
• Development of action plan

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Contacts

Strategic Forum for Construction Jane Thornback, jane.thornback@constructionproducts.org.uk Waste Subgroup – Chair Peter Johnson, peter.johnson@kier.co.uk BRE ‐ Secretariat Katherine Adams, adamsk@bre.co.uk

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