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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2012
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 169 5,819 95,738 101,557
Alt Empordà 293 1,603 32,928 34,532
Alt Penedès 559 12,234 154,800 167,034
Alt Urgell 42 131 1,680 1,812
Alta Ribagorça 15 27 1,028 1,055
Anoia 382 4,982 173,434 178,416
Bages 726 4,244 128,795 133,039
Baix Camp 299 11,304 89,378 100,682
Baix Ebre 151 4,768 48,294 53,062
Baix Empordà 269 1,127 39,625 40,752
Baix Llobregat 1,633 27,579 358,206 385,785
Baix Penedès 152 1,752 48,649 50,402
Barcelonès 1,453 26,980 237,515 264,495
Berguedà 143 350 16,610 16,960
Cerdanya 49 24 3,497 3,521
Conca de Barberà 94 3,905 30,238 34,143
Garraf 115 882 25,496 26,378
Garrigues 99 200 22,619 22,819
Garrotxa 319 2,416 61,811 64,227
Gironès 331 11,727 97,942 109,669
Maresme 737 24,385 94,174 118,559
Montsià 187 2,097 51,140 53,237
Noguera 133 271 12,352 12,623
Osona 754 6,212 166,862 173,074
Pallars Jussà 63 119 3,425 3,544
Pallars Sobirà 32 9 1,569 1,578
Pla d'Urgell 111 420 51,457 51,877
Pla de l'Estany 153 2,814 25,072 27,887
Priorat 154 59 10,667 10,725
Ribera d'Ebre 96 1,482 68,894 70,376
Ripollès 132 536 23,270 23,807
Segarra 56 1,462 79,109 80,571
Segrià 387 2,294 95,219 97,513
Selva 407 3,079 95,452 98,531
Solsonès 54 174 17,651 17,824
Tarragonès 308 43,885 99,759 143,645
Terra Alta 91 63 11,026 11,089
Urgell 107 418 18,980 19,398
Val d'Aran 16 102 1,417 1,520
Vallès Occidental 2,594 96,621 843,671 940,292
Vallès Oriental 1,385 107,073 292,810 399,882
Catalonia 15,250 415,629 3,732,260 4,147,889
Metropolità 7,802 282,637 1,826,377 2,109,013
Comarques Gironines 1,904 23,303 376,101 399,404
Camp de Tarragona 1,024 64,972 325,780 390,752
Terres de l'Ebre 525 8,410 179,354 187,764
Ponent 893 5,065 279,735 284,800
Comarques Centrals 1,677 10,980 329,918 340,897
Alt Pirineu i Aran 217 412 12,617 13,029
Penedès 1,208 19,850 402,379 422,229
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.

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 "..".