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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2024
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments Dangerous Not dangerous Total
Alt Camp 143 3,095 79,916 83,011
Alt Empordà 210 757 19,424 20,181
Alt Penedès 447 14,097 106,400 120,497
Alt Urgell 21 26 1,655 1,682
Alta Ribagorça 6 18 552 569
Anoia 292 2,478 99,151 101,628
Aran 7 45 14 59
Bages 537 4,200 110,860 115,060
Baix Camp 210 8,709 76,241 84,950
Baix Ebre 103 1,516 53,344 54,860
Baix Empordà 170 611 14,915 15,526
Baix Llobregat 1,315 32,358 285,666 318,024
Baix Penedès 98 3,409 30,178 33,587
Barcelonès 945 15,771 185,451 201,222
Berguedà 88 673 7,798 8,471
Cerdanya 14 33 1,395 1,428
Conca de Barberà 75 1,541 19,765 21,305
Garraf 90 2,744 29,402 32,146
Garrigues 69 95 48,827 48,921
Garrotxa 220 1,629 50,836 52,465
Gironès 292 21,977 139,656 161,633
Lluçanès 25 254 5,164 5,418
Maresme 515 22,602 49,442 72,045
Moianès 39 115 22,282 22,397
Montsià 117 1,387 32,339 33,726
Noguera 79 311 8,662 8,973
Osona 554 6,589 125,082 131,670
Pallars Jussà 28 24 1,306 1,330
Pallars Sobirà 10 5 112 117
Pla d'Urgell 84 502 76,245 76,747
Pla de l'Estany 123 1,055 25,529 26,584
Priorat 159 16 7,635 7,651
Ribera d'Ebre 58 578 26,027 26,604
Ripollès 87 566 25,925 26,491
Segarra 45 3,893 105,371 109,264
Segrià 263 1,439 168,539 169,978
Selva 312 4,940 111,122 116,061
Solsonès 31 827 4,209 5,035
Tarragonès 239 59,179 84,544 143,722
Terra Alta 81 46 9,869 9,915
Urgell 82 985 29,263 30,248
Vallès Occidental 2,107 88,449 614,322 702,772
Vallès Oriental 1,180 159,721 226,926 386,647
Catalonia 11,570 469,262 3,121,359 3,590,621
Metropolità 6,067 318,914 1,374,129 1,693,043
Comarques Gironines 1,414 31,535 387,407 418,942
Camp de Tarragona 826 72,539 268,101 340,640
Terres de l'Ebre 359 3,527 121,579 125,106
Ponent 618 7,220 435,303 442,523
Comarques Centrals 1,291 12,685 266,315 279,000
Alt Pirineu i Aran 86 151 5,034 5,184
Penedès 909 22,696 263,496 286,192
Units: Tons.
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Note: Waste: with the entry of the European Waste Catalogue, inert waste has disappeared, which is now considered special or not special.

Last update: September 15, 2026. Revised series on September 21, 2026.

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.

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 "..".