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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2017
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 187 3,730 85,596 89,326
Alt Empordà 305 1,157 33,170 34,327
Alt Penedès 569 17,562 139,556 157,118
Alt Urgell 44 55 2,558 2,613
Alta Ribagorça 17 30 524 554
Anoia 400 4,608 130,973 135,581
Aran 20 68 2,015 2,083
Bages 682 4,323 138,403 142,726
Baix Camp 307 9,556 113,313 122,869
Baix Ebre 157 1,189 91,078 92,266
Baix Empordà 257 2,077 33,681 35,758
Baix Llobregat 1,667 36,590 422,873 459,464
Baix Penedès 151 2,527 42,519 45,046
Barcelonès 1,422 22,847 256,628 279,475
Berguedà 139 307 17,031 17,338
Cerdanya 42 5 3,222 3,227
Conca de Barberà 96 1,471 24,074 25,545
Garraf 121 1,512 32,797 34,308
Garrigues 111 365 33,895 34,261
Garrotxa 302 2,439 81,918 84,357
Gironès 343 20,514 102,947 123,461
Maresme 752 27,440 98,886 126,327
Moianès 56 87 13,901 13,988
Montsià 176 1,222 79,277 80,500
Noguera 133 290 23,290 23,580
Osona 793 5,790 184,846 190,636
Pallars Jussà 58 99 2,714 2,813
Pallars Sobirà 36 67 2,384 2,451
Pla d'Urgell 114 466 66,246 66,712
Pla de l'Estany 151 2,774 31,762 34,535
Priorat 186 31 18,215 18,246
Ribera d'Ebre 94 1,262 56,375 57,637
Ripollès 119 822 26,120 26,942
Segarra 56 1,802 87,310 89,111
Segrià 396 2,157 65,513 67,669
Selva 399 6,976 100,036 107,013
Solsonès 54 361 3,183 3,544
Tarragonès 322 57,291 103,832 161,122
Terra Alta 104 32 12,200 12,232
Urgell 111 1,844 27,268 29,111
Vallès Occidental 2,759 101,571 818,500 920,072
Vallès Oriental 1,494 112,226 280,248 392,473
Catalonia 15,702 457,544 3,890,874 4,348,418
Metropolità 8,107 300,719 1,883,928 2,184,647
Comarques Gironines 1,876 36,760 409,632 446,392
Camp de Tarragona 1,098 72,080 345,029 417,108
Terres de l'Ebre 531 3,704 238,930 242,634
Ponent 921 6,925 303,521 310,445
Comarques Centrals 1,755 10,890 352,690 363,580
Alt Pirineu i Aran 217 325 13,417 13,742
Penedès 1,197 26,142 343,727 369,869
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: May 16, 2019.

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 "..".