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Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and Aran, and areas

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2006
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 880 1,580 548 2,494 69 719 1,483 7,773
Alt Empordà 3,553 5,345 1,264 1,167 8,289 5,236 13,044 37,898
Alt Penedès 2,744 2,782 1,414 3,888 353 2,390 3,296 16,867
Alt Urgell 693 1,210 457 1,658 271 294 500 5,082
Alta Ribagorça 138 175 23 0 0 0 0 335
Anoia 1,422 2,950 557 2,397 399 688 1,557 9,971
Bages 3,150 5,919 2,057 8,511 1,294 3,342 6,435 30,708
Baix Camp 3,109 6,214 2,533 10,054 6,186 2,912 8,393 39,400
Baix Ebre 962 1,531 397 1,151 529 735 1,501 6,806
Baix Empordà 4,523 4,116 1,453 2,170 3,482 2,622 6,697 25,062
Baix Llobregat (2) 1,746 2,670 1,076 1,896 1,636 1,438 4,177 14,640
Baix Penedès 1,391 1,676 508 1,131 2,745 1,946 1,827 11,224
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 45,661 96,990 25,810 116,210 20,080 80,372 50,516 435,640
Berguedà 922 1,251 751 780 11 271 1,039 5,025
Cerdanya 525 936 132 148 0 218 467 2,426
Conca de Barberà 481 658 217 1,126 255 519 581 3,838
Garraf 4,064 8,167 1,649 4,968 906 7,343 4,707 31,804
Garrigues 341 332 176 59 0 5 22 934
Garrotxa 1,353 2,054 465 1,237 0 1,453 1,270 7,831
Gironès 3,208 8,075 3,234 7,677 2,579 4,280 3,244 32,297
Maresme (2) 7,705 13,033 5,157 19,635 4,824 12,313 17,061 79,727
Montsià 984 1,709 611 1,748 120 1,304 1,951 8,426
Noguera 693 677 264 56 0 39 213 1,943
Osona 3,665 11,074 2,977 9,230 446 2,376 4,592 34,360
Pallars Jussà 336 469 148 248 103 66 212 1,582
Pallars Sobirà 393 359 91 0 0 153 83 1,078
Pla d'Urgell 568 881 256 0 7 62 337 2,111
Pla de l'Estany 562 1,175 369 582 581 134 1,125 4,528
Priorat 346 629 180 442 2 20 122 1,741
Ribera d'Ebre 918 1,510 411 1,167 82 235 728 5,052
Ripollès 661 1,072 342 1,129 0 718 138 4,059
Segarra 488 659 969 1,432 0 343 57 3,947
Segrià 2,501 5,585 1,457 4,326 3 1,169 490 15,532
Selva 3,401 5,008 1,286 4,495 1,008 1,579 3,876 20,652
Solsonès 287 604 160 0 0 76 227 1,354
Tarragonès 4,218 7,160 2,098 7,147 3,422 3,544 8,825 36,413
Terra Alta 351 467 139 383 0 1 2 1,342
Urgell 491 791 292 843 6 154 860 3,438
Val d'Aran 570 358 16 0 4 127 1,662 2,736
Vallès Occidental (2) 8,623 22,931 7,861 19,089 3,410 13,284 11,003 86,199
Vallès Oriental 5,845 10,576 3,980 15,404 3,629 6,898 14,960 61,290
Commercial waste (3) 58,537 178,024 20,883 42 0 0 0 257,486
Catalonia 183,006 419,379 94,672 256,119 66,729 161,377 179,278 1,360,558
Metropolità 76,388 157,149 46,948 181,090 34,838 124,037 105,719 726,168
Comarques Gironines 17,259 26,844 8,413 18,456 15,939 16,023 29,393 132,326
Camp de Tarragona 10,425 17,916 6,085 22,394 12,679 9,660 21,231 100,389
Terres de l'Ebre 3,214 5,217 1,559 4,449 731 2,275 4,182 21,626
Ponent 5,082 8,926 3,415 6,716 15 1,772 1,979 27,905
Comarques Centrals 9,447 21,798 6,503 20,919 2,150 6,753 13,851 81,419
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,655 3,506 867 2,054 377 858 2,923 13,239
Units: Tons.
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
(1) Includes selective collection of other municipal waste: batteries, medicines, textiles and other household waste.
(2) The Metropolitan Agency for Hydraulic Services and Waste Treatment (EMSHTR) manages waste for Barcelonès and some of the counties of Baix Llobregat, Maresme and Vallès Occidental.
(3) Disaggregation of collection by counties not available.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Selective collection
Differentiated collection of fermentable organic materials and recyclable materials, and any other system of differentiated collection that enables the separation of useful materials contained in waste.
Municipal waste
Domestic waste and waste from shops, services, offices and other waste that, due to its nature or composition, may be similar to domestic waste.

Methodological aspects

The European Union indicates that one of the areas of political action is waste management, in accordance with the basic principles of generating the minimum amount and managing it efficiently.

The availability of regular, representative and reliable data on the generation, collection and treatment of waste provides information describing the situation and state of waste, as well as making comparison between different territories possible.

The Catalan Waste Agency publishes annual data on the generation of municipal waste, on the basis of data provided by different local entities responsible for the collection and treatment of municipal waste.

From 2003, including for the calculation of generation per capita, the registered population has been used. In 2002, the Population and Housing Census 2001 was used, and in 2001 and 2000 the Population Statistics 1996 were used. Note that the seasonal tourist population supported by some municipalities has a higher generation of waste per capita.

In terms of selective collection, the difference between the total from adding the geographic partials (counties and areas of the territorial plan) and the total published for Catalonia is due to the existence of commercial waste that cannot be attributed to specific territories. The "Others" category includes waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), batteries, medications, textiles, rubble and other special waste. Home composting, which was considered for the first time in 2012, has been included in the "Organic Material" category.

Provisional data.

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 "..".