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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2016
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 185 4,464 80,282 84,746
Alt Empordà 301 1,684 30,973 32,657
Alt Penedès 551 15,304 135,848 151,152
Alt Urgell 43 71 2,095 2,165
Alta Ribagorça 17 110 1,104 1,214
Anoia 391 4,610 114,435 119,046
Aran 17 130 876 1,006
Bages 668 6,775 141,181 147,956
Baix Camp 300 9,964 100,188 110,152
Baix Ebre 149 511 68,836 69,347
Baix Empordà 260 4,565 35,843 40,408
Baix Llobregat 1,527 34,741 410,823 445,563
Baix Penedès 154 2,533 53,589 56,122
Barcelonès 1,332 24,627 241,300 265,928
Berguedà 137 344 14,195 14,538
Cerdanya 28 2 320 322
Conca de Barberà 96 1,645 20,904 22,549
Garraf 111 1,103 23,244 24,346
Garrigues 106 158 33,918 34,076
Garrotxa 304 1,946 78,120 80,066
Gironès 333 22,098 91,734 113,832
Maresme 703 34,126 97,733 131,859
Moianès 58 242 13,806 14,049
Montsià 173 1,066 67,348 68,414
Noguera 127 108 22,004 22,112
Osona 767 6,505 172,763 179,269
Pallars Jussà 59 40 3,291 3,330
Pallars Sobirà 34 14 2,109 2,123
Pla d'Urgell 116 388 63,066 63,455
Pla de l'Estany 141 2,485 33,752 36,237
Priorat 176 32 17,406 17,438
Ribera d'Ebre 94 1,781 59,551 61,332
Ripollès 126 841 24,275 25,115
Segarra 58 1,770 82,857 84,626
Segrià 383 3,041 59,321 62,362
Selva 391 5,316 101,464 106,780
Solsonès 48 290 3,126 3,417
Tarragonès 313 47,535 113,014 160,550
Terra Alta 102 51 11,651 11,702
Urgell 109 1,067 20,873 21,940
Vallès Occidental 2,478 107,136 789,057 896,193
Vallès Oriental 1,329 113,221 250,787 364,008
Catalonia 14,795 464,440 3,689,062 4,153,503
Metropolità 7,382 314,061 1,796,636 2,110,696
Comarques Gironines 1,856 38,935 396,161 435,096
Camp de Tarragona 1,070 63,641 331,794 395,434
Terres de l'Ebre 518 3,410 207,387 210,797
Ponent 899 6,532 282,039 288,571
Comarques Centrals 1,705 14,025 340,124 354,149
Alt Pirineu i Aran 198 367 9,794 10,161
Penedès 1,167 23,472 325,129 348,601
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.

Last update: March 5, 2018.

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 "..".