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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2008
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 159 9,271 87,622 96,892
Alt Empordà 302 4,489 77,639 82,128
Alt Penedès 566 9,795 161,684 171,479
Alt Urgell 42 58 8,968 9,026
Alta Ribagorça 11 40 930 970
Anoia 399 6,268 185,324 191,592
Bages 767 11,277 215,973 227,250
Baix Camp 306 10,941 107,841 118,782
Baix Ebre 142 5,643 90,997 96,640
Baix Empordà 276 1,540 55,543 57,082
Baix Llobregat 1,897 54,543 465,825 520,368
Baix Penedès 150 1,153 65,067 66,220
Barcelonès 1,741 45,864 307,036 352,900
Berguedà 129 1,226 158,377 159,602
Cerdanya 45 1,512 3,512 5,025
Conca de Barberà 100 1,524 30,227 31,751
Garraf 125 3,693 50,270 53,962
Garrigues 88 246 24,581 24,827
Garrotxa 338 3,455 74,113 77,568
Gironès 366 20,720 140,111 160,831
Maresme 847 32,114 116,677 148,791
Montsià 196 5,015 82,735 87,750
Noguera 112 729 24,391 25,120
Osona 829 8,194 264,197 272,391
Pallars Jussà 45 808 5,046 5,854
Pallars Sobirà 22 210 1,394 1,604
Pla d'Urgell 107 3,935 28,214 32,149
Pla de l'Estany 160 2,929 46,444 49,373
Priorat 118 63 13,086 13,149
Ribera d'Ebre 86 5,106 71,707 76,813
Ripollès 127 918 26,648 27,566
Segarra 53 2,204 98,438 100,643
Segrià 339 6,298 141,397 147,695
Selva 425 6,493 140,458 146,951
Solsonès 57 268 31,340 31,608
Tarragonès 293 81,575 126,658 208,233
Terra Alta 71 76 13,194 13,269
Urgell 112 5,190 21,647 26,837
Val d'Aran 12 41 1,116 1,156
Vallès Occidental 3,033 123,380 1,032,107 1,155,488
Vallès Oriental 1,586 165,423 377,628 543,051
Catalonia 16,579 644,222 4,976,162 5,620,384
Metropolità 9,795 434,811 2,511,228 2,946,039
Comarques Gironines 1,994 40,544 560,955 601,499
Camp de Tarragona 1,126 104,526 430,502 535,028
Terres de l'Ebre 495 15,839 258,632 274,472
Ponent 811 18,602 338,668 357,270
Comarques Centrals 2,181 27,232 855,211 882,443
Alt Pirineu i Aran 177 2,668 20,966 23,634
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: May 5, 2010.

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 "..".