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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2009
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 163 6,626 87,140 93,765
Alt Empordà 295 1,747 50,113 51,860
Alt Penedès 562 6,002 136,496 142,498
Alt Urgell 43 147 9,851 9,999
Alta Ribagorça 10 34 758 792
Anoia 388 6,004 154,138 160,142
Bages 745 8,323 165,100 173,423
Baix Camp 301 8,855 104,761 113,616
Baix Ebre 148 3,827 73,609 77,436
Baix Empordà 274 2,352 37,699 40,051
Baix Llobregat 1,831 33,721 365,090 398,811
Baix Penedès 162 1,767 63,853 65,620
Barcelonès 1,674 34,051 260,309 294,360
Berguedà 128 183 50,480 50,663
Cerdanya 49 273 4,194 4,467
Conca de Barberà 99 1,233 26,174 27,408
Garraf 130 2,238 37,711 39,949
Garrigues 94 253 29,479 29,732
Garrotxa 320 4,034 67,582 71,616
Gironès 354 14,623 115,707 130,329
Maresme 796 25,643 98,260 123,903
Montsià 201 6,146 78,134 84,280
Noguera 109 574 19,699 20,273
Osona 816 5,721 236,723 242,445
Pallars Jussà 53 75 3,370 3,445
Pallars Sobirà 19 247 2,716 2,963
Pla d'Urgell 114 675 43,290 43,965
Pla de l'Estany 165 2,940 25,291 28,232
Priorat 137 52 11,320 11,373
Ribera d'Ebre 84 3,268 54,998 58,265
Ripollès 128 565 16,506 17,071
Segarra 56 1,451 88,346 89,797
Segrià 353 2,146 137,171 139,317
Selva 415 8,445 111,314 119,759
Solsonès 57 220 22,654 22,874
Tarragonès 305 41,984 117,377 159,361
Terra Alta 78 6 12,461 12,467
Urgell 116 906 19,001 19,907
Val d'Aran 13 120 1,515 1,635
Vallès Occidental 2,914 111,402 908,571 1,019,973
Vallès Oriental 1,534 104,728 316,710 421,439
Catalonia 16,233 453,607 4,165,673 4,619,280
Metropolità 9,441 317,786 2,123,147 2,440,932
Comarques Gironines 1,951 34,706 424,212 458,918
Camp de Tarragona 1,167 60,518 410,626 471,143
Terres de l'Ebre 511 13,246 219,202 232,448
Ponent 842 6,005 336,986 342,991
Comarques Centrals 2,134 20,451 629,095 649,546
Alt Pirineu i Aran 187 896 22,405 23,301
Units: Tons.
Source: 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 2, 2011.

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 "..".