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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2009
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 1,009 1,657 747 2,613 346 1,128 0 7,502
Alt Empordà 6,212 6,130 2,250 1,767 6,052 6,102 4,631 33,144
Alt Penedès 3,073 3,100 1,806 4,849 657 4,319 3,754 21,560
Alt Urgell 718 1,205 520 1,372 199 391 543 4,948
Alta Ribagorça 153 211 68 46 0 153 138 769
Anoia 1,847 2,675 991 3,592 463 2,573 970 13,112
Bages 3,673 5,445 3,126 10,058 3,360 4,024 6,960 36,646
Baix Camp 3,755 7,148 3,957 12,263 10,353 2,411 2,936 42,823
Baix Ebre 1,502 2,397 972 4,064 1,460 2,150 2,972 15,517
Baix Empordà 5,483 4,719 3,012 5,141 3,934 3,343 4,381 30,012
Baix Llobregat (2) 2,510 3,664 2,173 5,157 2,390 4,722 5,169 25,784
Baix Penedès 2,140 2,287 1,222 2,425 4,329 2,715 2,605 17,722
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 54,222 126,326 35,979 133,997 28,497 91,466 71,358 541,844
Berguedà 927 1,194 854 1,478 24 541 761 5,778
Cerdanya 681 908 205 0 0 371 404 2,568
Conca de Barberà 527 783 351 1,648 327 838 1,321 5,797
Garraf 3,617 4,655 1,866 5,936 2,534 10,551 4,361 33,520
Garrigues 314 410 203 833 0 46 19 1,825
Garrotxa 1,500 2,766 692 2,040 523 1,607 1,782 10,910
Gironès 3,634 6,995 3,525 9,194 1,557 2,997 3,183 31,084
Maresme (2) 9,440 12,894 6,726 26,407 6,392 21,252 18,254 101,365
Montsià 1,629 2,901 2,229 6,697 403 2,703 2,783 19,346
Noguera 653 787 383 2,503 0 144 33 4,504
Osona 3,940 9,648 4,741 12,098 1,060 3,470 3,174 38,131
Pallars Jussà 387 600 258 451 10 130 355 2,192
Pallars Sobirà 382 433 133 0 0 147 371 1,466
Pla d'Urgell 868 1,182 904 3,130 22 307 460 6,874
Pla de l'Estany 685 1,176 627 1,003 1,160 776 895 6,322
Priorat 584 765 282 471 435 121 446 3,103
Ribera d'Ebre 1,336 1,636 530 1,741 2,463 444 129 8,280
Ripollès 848 1,259 506 1,896 62 1,047 1,231 6,849
Segarra 542 814 611 1,941 20 431 386 4,745
Segrià 3,050 5,645 2,282 6,744 4 1,643 599 19,968
Selva 3,651 5,271 2,057 6,139 3,456 2,787 3,493 26,854
Solsonès 319 547 216 0 15 226 169 1,491
Tarragonès 4,943 8,379 3,638 11,188 6,535 5,497 5,132 45,312
Terra Alta 606 840 276 751 0 0 1 2,474
Urgell 627 877 362 1,344 20 150 379 3,758
Val d'Aran 451 389 14 0 3 611 1,364 2,832
Vallès Occidental (2) 10,765 23,678 11,819 26,076 4,371 15,154 11,131 102,994
Vallès Oriental 7,145 11,371 5,589 21,619 5,628 9,566 9,888 70,806
Commercial waste (3) 41,317 152,225 18,922 0 0 0 0 212,465
Catalonia 150,348 275,765 108,702 340,674 99,067 209,054 179,642 1,363,252
Metropolità 90,771 185,689 65,957 224,041 50,471 157,030 123,915 897,873
Comarques Gironines 22,013 28,315 12,669 27,180 16,744 18,658 19,595 145,174
Camp de Tarragona 12,959 21,018 10,197 30,608 22,325 12,711 12,441 122,259
Terres de l'Ebre 5,073 7,774 4,008 13,254 4,327 5,297 5,884 45,617
Ponent 6,054 9,715 4,746 16,495 66 2,722 1,876 41,674
Comarques Centrals 10,706 19,508 9,928 27,226 4,922 10,834 12,034 95,158
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,773 3,745 1,198 1,869 212 1,803 3,175 14,774
Units: Tons.
Source: 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: October 3, 2011.

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 "..".