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The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Scoping study on flooring waste
Katherine Adams
23rd June 2009
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
What is CRWP?
• Partnership between AEA and BRE since 2006
• Developed a roadmap
• Provide strategic direction for construction resource efficiency
• Medium to long term
• Targets
• Government commitment to implement
• Support to the construction industry
• Evidence for Government policy
• Focus at the top of the waste hierarchy
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Background to study
• Sustainable Construction Strategy• CPA has a commitment to: prepare
and implement three resource plans
• Feed into ½ waste to landfill target
• Contract Flooring Association (CFA) showed an interest
• CRWP commissioned scoping study for a resource plan for flooring
• Work undertaken early 2009 by Pete Thomas of Pete Thomas Environmental
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Study objectives
• Define the requirements of a resource plan for flooring
• Define the issue – focusing on manufacturers / contractors with figures / facts on the amount and type of waste and how this is being managed
• Define the industry in terms of size, type value, imports/ exports
• Identify the extent of the problem and what are the key gaps
• Identify stakeholders and their activities – both within the flooring industry and externally.
• Identify initial recommendations and actions with timescales.
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
What we included
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Market size
Market Size of UK Flooring Sector (million m2)
210
33
26
8.6
7.1
2.6
2
1
0 50 100 150 200 250
Carpet
Laminate
Vinyl
Ceramics
Resin
Wood
Linoleum
Rubber
Carpet Laminate Vinyl Ceramics Resin Wood Linoleum Rubber
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Waste arisings
Landfill/ secondary aggregaten/aResin
Landfill3,500Rubber
Landfill/incineration6,000Linoleum
Recycled/landfilled13,000Wood
Hardcore35,000Ceramics
Landfill/incineration36,700Vinyl
Landfill75,000Laminate
Landfill414,000Carpets
Current RouteArisings
(tonnes)
Type
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Key findings
• Lack of cost drivers to encourage recovery
• Contamination
• Complex composition
• Cost of processing
• Quantity and location of waste
• Transportation
• Waste licensing
• Distributors
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Recommendations
• Establish a roadmap/resource plan
• One stop shop
• Identify end uses – support with funding
• Survey of waste
• Communicate with distributors
• Clean handling system
• Definition of carpet waste?
• Specifications for recovered flooring wastes
• Resource efficiency programme for UK carpet manufacturers
• Mixed floor collection scheme
• Voluntary agreements
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Next steps
• Publication of scoping document
• More work to be funded by WRAP and BRE
Trust
• Lots of stakeholder engagement
• Develop resource plan and practical action
plans for materials
<1% of flooring waste is recovered or
recycled
The construction industry’s forum on resource efficiency and waste reduction, visit: www.crwplatform.org.uk
Thank you
Katherine Adams
E: adamsk@bre.co.uk
T: 01923 664478
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