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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2015
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 177 3,925 89,522 93,447
Alt Empordà 301 1,397 29,269 30,666
Alt Penedès 538 12,912 153,955 166,866
Alt Urgell 46 83 4,736 4,818
Alta Ribagorça 16 53 803 855
Anoia 386 4,997 111,183 116,180
Aran 17 28 872 900
Bages 655 3,788 135,929 139,717
Baix Camp 295 9,544 103,788 113,332
Baix Ebre 151 658 68,361 69,019
Baix Empordà 264 966 31,519 32,485
Baix Llobregat 1,504 33,393 371,241 404,635
Baix Penedès 152 2,672 49,677 52,349
Barcelonès 1,393 21,090 273,367 294,457
Berguedà 135 322 13,155 13,477
Cerdanya 46 3 4,075 4,078
Conca de Barberà 91 1,466 22,264 23,730
Garraf 110 1,381 23,744 25,125
Garrigues 99 328 33,022 33,350
Garrotxa 312 1,920 68,262 70,182
Gironès 333 16,176 87,015 103,191
Maresme 709 30,377 90,620 120,997
Moianès 58 209 11,975 12,184
Montsià 175 1,212 66,355 67,567
Noguera 129 103 22,540 22,643
Osona 744 6,278 161,042 167,320
Pallars Jussà 59 43 2,082 2,125
Pallars Sobirà 35 81 1,713 1,794
Pla d'Urgell 121 572 64,700 65,272
Pla de l'Estany 143 3,667 34,762 38,429
Priorat 163 30 16,357 16,387
Ribera d'Ebre 91 1,031 65,227 66,259
Ripollès 130 933 23,110 24,043
Segarra 53 1,449 75,575 77,023
Segrià 376 1,899 77,917 79,816
Selva 398 3,849 102,620 106,468
Solsonès 49 237 8,684 8,921
Tarragonès 304 50,603 105,706 156,310
Terra Alta 94 35 10,581 10,616
Urgell 104 808 21,841 22,649
Vallès Occidental 2,464 98,513 793,294 891,807
Vallès Oriental 1,328 92,023 269,360 361,383
Catalonia 14,748 411,054 3,701,820 4,112,873
Metropolità 7,411 275,520 1,803,591 2,079,112
Comarques Gironines 1,881 28,908 376,558 405,465
Camp de Tarragona 1,030 65,567 337,637 403,205
Terres de l'Ebre 511 2,937 210,524 213,461
Ponent 882 5,158 295,593 300,752
Comarques Centrals 1,668 10,816 327,439 338,255
Alt Pirineu i Aran 219 291 14,280 14,571
Penedès 1,146 21,856 336,195 358,051
Units: Tons.
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs: number of establishments and urban waste water treatment plants which have submitted the annual industrial waste declaration.
Waste: with the entry of the European Waste Catalogue, inert waste has disappeared, which is now considered special or not special.
The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.
EDAR: Estacions depuradores d'aigues residuals urbanes.

Last update: November 30, 2016.

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 "..".