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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2018
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 188 3,260 101,331 104,591
Alt Empordà 296 834 29,397 30,231
Alt Penedès 559 20,214 153,413 173,626
Alt Urgell 37 91 1,635 1,726
Alta Ribagorça 21 51 528 579
Anoia 398 4,173 124,926 129,098
Aran 19 161 955 1,116
Bages 678 4,589 133,526 138,116
Baix Camp 298 9,898 95,435 105,333
Baix Ebre 146 1,652 74,332 75,984
Baix Empordà 255 1,807 32,345 34,152
Baix Llobregat 1,691 39,548 428,263 467,812
Baix Penedès 144 2,916 43,164 46,080
Barcelonès 1,374 22,246 258,565 280,811
Berguedà 135 305 14,417 14,722
Cerdanya 39 5 3,417 3,422
Conca de Barberà 97 1,872 20,801 22,672
Garraf 121 2,242 43,226 45,468
Garrigues 98 133 32,560 32,693
Garrotxa 299 2,287 79,164 81,451
Gironès 351 20,011 111,602 131,613
Maresme 718 28,491 100,863 129,355
Moianès 56 97 15,823 15,920
Montsià 165 1,095 38,464 39,559
Noguera 123 326 21,166 21,492
Osona 771 7,128 188,550 195,678
Pallars Jussà 61 14 2,796 2,809
Pallars Sobirà 31 9 2,373 2,382
Pla d'Urgell 111 525 62,321 62,847
Pla de l'Estany 150 3,147 33,415 36,563
Priorat 183 18 15,526 15,544
Ribera d'Ebre 98 3,708 51,452 55,160
Ripollès 115 1,101 30,811 31,912
Segarra 58 2,571 94,704 97,275
Segrià 389 2,009 68,897 70,906
Selva 384 5,219 105,091 110,310
Solsonès 50 548 4,177 4,726
Tarragonès 322 58,616 106,124 164,740
Terra Alta 99 46 10,131 10,176
Urgell 105 1,700 24,159 25,860
Vallès Occidental 2,770 106,741 797,635 904,376
Vallès Oriental 1,478 121,690 295,391 417,080
Catalonia 15,481 483,096 3,852,873 4,335,969
Metropolità 8,043 318,749 1,888,083 2,206,832
Comarques Gironines 1,850 34,407 421,826 456,234
Camp de Tarragona 1,088 73,663 339,218 412,881
Terres de l'Ebre 508 6,501 174,378 180,879
Ponent 884 7,265 303,807 311,073
Comarques Centrals 1,722 12,701 350,938 363,639
Alt Pirineu i Aran 208 331 11,704 12,035
Penedès 1,178 29,478 362,918 392,397
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.

Last update: May 6, 2020.

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 "..".