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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2006
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 150 15,256 90,971 106,227
Alt Empordà 236 3,126 70,126 73,252
Alt Penedès 526 6,585 171,047 177,633
Alt Urgell 39 1,925 5,736 7,661
Alta Ribagorça 4 312 34 346
Anoia 366 4,899 191,850 196,749
Bages 734 23,269 235,276 258,545
Baix Camp 272 16,604 120,386 136,990
Baix Ebre 125 1,731 62,653 64,384
Baix Empordà 245 2,025 51,444 53,469
Baix Llobregat 1,884 52,735 516,893 569,628
Baix Penedès 129 5,412 50,705 56,118
Barcelonès 1,711 51,110 342,542 393,652
Berguedà 116 608 170,632 171,239
Cerdanya 38 492 6,006 6,498
Conca de Barberà 81 1,333 29,522 30,854
Garraf 113 6,598 41,359 47,957
Garrigues 66 2,025 19,982 22,007
Garrotxa 314 1,459 81,457 82,916
Gironès 324 17,909 167,366 185,275
Maresme 820 49,962 168,768 218,730
Montsià 175 4,912 56,132 61,045
Noguera 100 4,343 31,614 35,956
Osona 760 9,033 258,662 267,695
Pallars Jussà 41 769 13,113 13,882
Pallars Sobirà 17 86 2,277 2,363
Pla d'Urgell 99 2,911 31,131 34,042
Pla de l'Estany 145 1,631 61,629 63,260
Priorat 106 67 11,686 11,754
Ribera d'Ebre 78 4,452 67,286 71,738
Ripollès 116 1,117 23,015 24,131
Segarra 49 1,798 110,987 112,785
Segrià 286 23,595 143,846 167,441
Selva 407 6,993 158,606 165,599
Solsonès 48 1,161 30,468 31,629
Tarragonès 267 44,677 115,652 160,328
Terra Alta 62 522 12,113 12,635
Urgell 94 582 27,850 28,432
Val d'Aran 11 45 837 882
Vallès Occidental 2,982 141,260 988,311 1,129,571
Vallès Oriental 1,607 215,119 435,201 650,320
Catalonia 15,743 730,448 5,175,170 5,905,618
Metropolità 9,643 523,369 2,664,122 3,187,491
Comarques Gironines 1,787 34,259 613,642 647,901
Camp de Tarragona 1,005 83,349 418,921 502,271
Terres de l'Ebre 440 11,618 198,184 209,802
Ponent 694 35,254 365,410 400,664
Comarques Centrals 2,024 38,970 886,888 925,858
Alt Pirineu i Aran 150 3,629 28,003 31,631
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 "..".