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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2003
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 204 20,439 86,394 106,833
Alt Empordà 355 3,392 44,267 47,659
Alt Penedès 632 6,128 167,429 173,557
Alt Urgell 46 1,994 5,640 7,634
Alta Ribagorça 10 33 377 409
Anoia 466 2,714 187,041 189,755
Bages 880 13,815 221,794 235,609
Baix Camp 350 15,154 92,424 107,577
Baix Ebre 152 1,129 55,161 56,289
Baix Empordà 352 2,265 41,391 43,656
Baix Llobregat 2,895 59,911 604,906 664,817
Baix Penedès 185 1,941 48,685 50,626
Barcelonès 2,839 42,050 435,583 477,633
Berguedà 147 594 148,280 148,874
Cerdanya 50 33 18,086 18,119
Conca de Barberà 94 1,209 30,236 31,445
Garraf 177 2,090 36,619 38,708
Garrigues 77 183 11,909 12,092
Garrotxa 401 4,688 84,429 89,117
Gironès 475 13,909 178,189 192,098
Maresme 1,247 28,191 142,094 170,284
Montsià 223 1,797 48,133 49,930
Noguera 100 517 24,368 24,885
Osona 960 13,468 275,699 289,167
Pallars Jussà 39 722 4,312 5,034
Pallars Sobirà 21 25 688 713
Pla d'Urgell 103 343 78,901 79,244
Pla de l'Estany 181 2,067 53,988 56,055
Priorat 82 1 3,717 3,718
Ribera d'Ebre 75 3,727 35,672 39,399
Ripollès 140 1,027 17,475 18,501
Segarra 58 1,448 96,538 97,985
Segrià 343 12,109 126,417 138,526
Selva 557 7,498 167,442 174,939
Solsonès 48 218 28,970 29,188
Tarragonès 352 42,578 168,978 211,556
Terra Alta 72 12 10,185 10,197
Urgell 108 503 15,563 16,066
Val d'Aran 10 5 852 857
Vallès Occidental 4,858 122,386 1,027,997 1,150,384
Vallès Oriental 2,393 213,418 392,571 605,989
Catalonia 22,757 645,729 5,219,398 5,865,126
Metropolità 15,041 474,174 2,807,199 3,281,372
Comarques Gironines 2,461 34,846 587,181 622,025
Camp de Tarragona 1,267 81,322 430,434 511,755
Terres de l'Ebre 522 6,665 149,151 155,815
Ponent 789 15,103 353,696 368,798
Comarques Centrals 2,501 30,809 861,784 892,593
Alt Pirineu i Aran 176 2,812 29,955 32,766
Units: Tons.
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
Industrial waste: data obtained from annual declarations of industrial waste.
Declaring establishments: nombre d'empreses que han enviat les declaracions demanades.
Waste: with the entry of the European Waste Catalogue, inert waste has disappeared, which is now considered special or not special.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".