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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2013
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 166 7,613 95,500 103,113
Alt Empordà 291 1,393 34,959 36,352
Alt Penedès 539 11,971 167,384 179,355
Alt Urgell 43 242 2,238 2,480
Alta Ribagorça 16 33 475 508
Anoia 377 3,285 168,708 171,993
Bages 704 3,750 125,468 129,218
Baix Camp 301 7,833 99,326 107,158
Baix Ebre 148 3,516 69,229 72,745
Baix Empordà 269 1,048 35,158 36,206
Baix Llobregat 1,549 31,023 354,152 385,174
Baix Penedès 145 1,937 55,034 56,971
Barcelonès 1,419 29,068 268,936 298,004
Berguedà 136 508 15,528 16,036
Cerdanya 47 35 2,674 2,709
Conca de Barberà 95 3,544 28,251 31,795
Garraf 111 878 24,636 25,514
Garrigues 98 147 31,644 31,791
Garrotxa 310 1,292 61,808 63,100
Gironès 323 11,326 93,140 104,466
Maresme 703 25,792 91,634 117,426
Montsià 174 1,348 51,210 52,557
Noguera 130 195 16,227 16,422
Osona 740 4,918 148,411 153,329
Pallars Jussà 60 72 2,255 2,328
Pallars Sobirà 31 14 1,100 1,114
Pla d'Urgell 116 279 64,732 65,012
Pla de l'Estany 145 2,758 25,328 28,086
Priorat 160 66 11,536 11,602
Ribera d'Ebre 94 1,546 63,955 65,501
Ripollès 128 518 21,509 22,027
Segarra 54 1,407 74,586 75,993
Segrià 380 2,156 79,943 82,099
Selva 395 5,879 99,383 105,262
Solsonès 51 144 4,626 4,771
Tarragonès 309 39,074 109,429 148,502
Terra Alta 92 36 10,580 10,616
Urgell 107 741 17,086 17,827
Val d'Aran 17 43 610 653
Vallès Occidental 2,506 99,688 862,067 961,755
Vallès Oriental 1,367 87,093 258,731 345,823
Catalonia 14,846 394,206 3,749,189 4,143,395
Metropolità 7,544 272,664 1,835,519 2,108,183
Comarques Gironines 1,861 24,214 371,286 395,500
Camp de Tarragona 1,031 58,130 344,041 402,170
Terres de l'Ebre 508 6,445 194,974 201,419
Ponent 885 4,924 284,219 289,143
Comarques Centrals 1,631 9,320 294,034 303,354
Alt Pirineu i Aran 214 439 9,353 9,792
Penedès 1,172 18,071 415,762 433,833
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: July 15, 2015.

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 "..".