Activity
Construction & Demolition Survey 2005-06

To find out more about the type and quantity of waste produced by this sector, Environment Agency Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund, undertook a C&D waste survey. This included collecting data from 228 demolition, construction, civil engineering and refurbishment companies in Wales on the amounts and types of waste produced by their activities.

General Information

Objectives: The primary aim of this survey was to produce an estimate of the quantities, fates and composition of C&D waste produced in Wales in 2005-06. Data was needed on C&D waste to inform the Welsh Assembly Government and Welsh local authorities on waste strategy targets and indicators; developing and monitoring regional waste plans; submission of data to Europe to comply with EC Waste Statistics Regulations and progress on Minerals Technical Advice Note19 (TAN) Wales for Aggregates. Other aims of the survey were to: - produce conversion factors to convert waste data from volume into weight; review current practices of planning and building control departments to provide an understanding of the part that they play in the C&D sector waste generation; review and make recommendations as to how the C&D sector measures and records the amount of waste it generates; review how the C&D sector manages hazardous waste.
Environmental domain: Built environment
Purpose Of collection: Data collection
Policy
Legislative
Strategic goals
Maintaining competence
Duty of cooperation
Keywords: survey
Waste
statistics
Business
Construction
Demolition
Wales
Parameters measured: Quantities of waste arising by waste management option
Composition of waste for each phase of construction development from demolition
site clearance
sub-structure
super-structure and fittings
construction
civil engineering
general building (refurbishment) companies
Industry trends
opinions and practices
type of waste and geographical breakdown of the three regions in Wales
Composition of waste in a typical (virtual) container such as a skip of waste produced by demolition
erff keywords: A4, B2, C8, D9, E2.2.B.3, C13.9, E5.B.3.3, E1.2.1, E5.A.1, G2.2.1.4, E5.B.8.1, C6.2.3, C6.2.4, E5.C.2, E5.C.3, E2.2.A.20, E2.2.A.21, E2.2.A.22, S10.2, S11.3, S11.4, S11.7, S11.10, S4.15, S4.16, S4.17, S4.23
Supplemental info: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/library/publications/33979.aspx

Location

Bounding box

Costs/Funding

Categories: public
Future Funding Status: Secure

Contacts

Lead organisation: Welsh Government Cathays Park CARDIFF CF10 3NQ UK www.wales.gov.uk
Responsible party: Environment Agency enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk 03708 506 506 www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
Responsible party: Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund
Lead funder: Welsh Government Cathays Park CARDIFF CF10 3NQ UK www.wales.gov.uk

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