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Industrial waste. By types

Industrial waste. By types Catalonia Total
Special Not special Total
2021 506,526 3,876,860 4,383,386
2020 412,992 3,628,927 4,041,913
2019 458,819 3,909,520 4,368,339
2018 483,099 3,852,873 4,335,972
2017 457,545 3,890,875 4,348,418
2016 464,441 3,689,061 4,153,502
2015 411,055 3,701,817 4,112,872
2014 412,809 3,718,586 4,131,395
2013 394,206 3,749,189 4,143,395
2012 415,629 3,732,260 4,147,889
2011 463,041 4,004,949 4,467,990
2010 468,248 4,195,137 4,663,386
2009 453,607 4,165,673 4,619,280
Units: Tons.
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
Waste management facilities, off-site waste water treatment plants and the preparation of water intended for human consumption: includes the urban waste water treatment plants.
New statistical criteria based on the 2006 declaration. The Progric revision sought to make an approximation of the reality of the industrial waste generated in Catalonia. The data declared by companies was first analysed in aggregate form and then in consideration of different activity groups: industries and environmental services (managers and purification plants).
Classified by type of waste in the European Waste Catalogue.

Last update: May 11, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Industrial waste
Waste derived from manufacturing or industrial activities or processes. Can be: special or non special.
Special industrial waste
Any waste included in the application of Directive 91/689/CE, of December 12.
Non special waste
That which is not included in the previous definition.

Methodological aspects

Industrial waste is presented classified by types, by activity sectors and by counties, in accordance with the new Waste catalogue. Not included is waste resulting from mining activities or from the exploitation of stone, or radioactive waste or unclassified explosives. Neither is sanitary or municipal waste included, nor that from agricultural or livestock operations that is reused by the agricultural operation, or that which is managed as wastewater.

Groupings according to Section 8 of EU Regulation 849/2010, in relation to statistics on waste:

  • 1 Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing
  • 2 Mining industry
  • 3 Food, beverages and tobacco
  • 4 Textiles, dressmaking, leather and footwear
  • 5 Wood and cork, except furniture; basketware
  • 6 Paper, graphic arts and recorded media
  • 7 Coke products and petroleum refinery
  • 8 Chemical industries, pharmaceutical products, rubber & plastic materials
  • 9 Other non metallic mineral products
  • 10 Metallurgy and metal products
  • 11 Computer products, electronics and optics, electric machinery, mechanical, motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, other transport materials
  • 12 Furniture, manufacturing, machinery and equipment
  • 13 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning
  • 14 Collection, supply and treat. of water, sewage, purification and others
  • 15 Collection, treatment and elimination of waste; evaluation
  • 16 Construction
  • 17 Services (except wholesale of scrap metal and waste)
  • 18 Wholesale of scrap metal and waste

In accordance with the criteria of the Industrial Waste Management Programme (PROGRIC), and on the basis of Declaration 2006, the data on industrial waste is determined in accordance with the grouping into activities: industries, treatment plants and waste managers.

The data of Industrial waste obtained from annual declarations of industrial waste.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".