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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2011
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 159 6,212 98,422 104,634
Alt Empordà 285 2,244 37,503 39,746
Alt Penedès 552 12,341 154,920 167,261
Alt Urgell 47 168 3,282 3,450
Alta Ribagorça 15 52 1,008 1,060
Anoia 393 6,613 175,008 181,621
Bages 729 8,005 144,852 152,857
Baix Camp 304 11,192 98,711 109,903
Baix Ebre 155 4,151 53,553 57,704
Baix Empordà 282 1,840 43,054 44,894
Baix Llobregat 1,712 31,779 381,467 413,246
Baix Penedès 155 1,434 52,984 54,418
Barcelonès 1,513 30,095 260,767 290,862
Berguedà 144 988 18,970 19,958
Cerdanya 49 73 3,389 3,462
Conca de Barberà 96 2,031 36,752 38,783
Garraf 126 2,714 28,840 31,554
Garrigues 97 222 25,322 25,545
Garrotxa 323 3,220 56,803 60,023
Gironès 346 10,292 99,862 110,154
Maresme 758 24,533 110,664 135,198
Montsià 194 3,372 64,867 68,239
Noguera 127 219 13,814 14,033
Osona 785 6,270 182,093 188,363
Pallars Jussà 64 115 2,546 2,661
Pallars Sobirà 30 174 1,690 1,863
Pla d'Urgell 112 1,191 46,293 29,002
Pla de l'Estany 152 2,635 26,367 47,484
Priorat 146 72 10,278 10,350
Ribera d'Ebre 97 4,760 61,574 66,333
Ripollès 136 1,435 32,442 33,877
Segarra 55 1,211 79,959 81,170
Segrià 389 2,251 99,353 101,604
Selva 414 3,683 103,476 107,158
Solsonès 55 630 21,634 22,263
Tarragonès 313 48,050 106,793 154,843
Terra Alta 87 16 10,358 10,374
Urgell 107 626 26,844 27,470
Val d'Aran 18 81 1,505 1,586
Vallès Occidental 2,698 106,128 893,197 999,325
Vallès Oriental 1,434 119,926 333,734 453,661
Catalonia 15,653 463,042 4,004,949 4,467,991
Metropolità 8,115 312,461 1,979,830 2,292,292
Comarques Gironines 1,938 25,349 399,506 424,855
Camp de Tarragona 1,018 67,557 350,956 418,513
Terres de l'Ebre 533 12,299 190,351 202,650
Ponent 887 5,719 291,586 297,305
Comarques Centrals 1,713 15,892 367,549 383,441
Alt Pirineu i Aran 223 663 13,419 14,082
Penedès 1,226 23,102 411,751 434,854
Units: Tons.
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
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.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: January 30, 2014.

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 "..".