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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2011
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 1,033 1,681 899 3,254 154 1,084 542 8,648
Alt Empordà 5,473 5,845 2,071 1,937 9,468 8,899 6,120 39,812
Alt Penedès 3,097 2,561 1,835 5,483 522 3,848 2,600 19,946
Alt Urgell 634 1,073 517 1,533 187 335 422 4,701
Alta Ribagorça 244 356 140 101 0 159 80 1,079
Anoia 1,751 2,511 1,119 4,301 382 1,198 1,147 12,409
Bages 3,353 4,820 3,281 9,255 1,701 2,655 8,883 33,947
Baix Camp 3,728 6,950 3,847 11,261 8,945 4,817 8,923 48,470
Baix Ebre 1,676 2,578 1,215 5,101 5,137 1,932 4,329 21,968
Baix Empordà 5,396 4,630 3,064 8,410 4,703 4,324 3,946 34,473
Baix Llobregat (2) 2,327 3,859 3,433 9,011 3,131 3,372 4,789 29,921
Baix Penedès 2,193 2,106 1,416 3,684 2,413 2,563 1,620 15,995
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 56,244 101,355 39,306 178,567 30,186 63,219 77,619 546,496
Berguedà 886 1,056 713 1,805 33 500 580 5,574
Cerdanya 655 873 235 306 0 406 458 2,933
Conca de Barberà 564 747 358 1,531 97 809 1,299 5,405
Garraf 3,877 4,160 1,901 5,821 1,999 9,132 4,963 31,852
Garrigues 284 313 195 775 0 99 12 1,679
Garrotxa 1,397 2,082 729 3,192 473 588 2,817 11,278
Gironès 3,398 5,850 3,605 9,455 1,703 3,019 3,084 30,114
Maresme (2) 10,054 11,555 7,272 31,130 7,930 21,521 17,251 106,714
Montsià 1,462 2,464 2,127 6,211 687 2,687 3,986 19,625
Noguera 657 566 408 2,546 0 173 34 4,385
Osona 3,961 9,411 4,614 13,225 642 2,914 2,654 37,421
Pallars Jussà 411 543 315 517 202 889 217 3,093
Pallars Sobirà 326 323 190 0 0 131 453 1,424
Pla d'Urgell 765 1,040 941 3,216 47 357 698 7,065
Pla de l'Estany 663 1,188 592 1,368 1,243 333 677 6,063
Priorat 294 572 279 946 105 104 30 2,329
Ribera d'Ebre 748 1,281 536 1,395 426 744 92 5,223
Ripollès 788 1,080 515 1,747 41 713 1,174 6,058
Segarra 552 726 648 2,036 32 345 263 4,602
Segrià 3,034 4,564 2,368 7,251 1,540 2,878 1,169 22,805
Selva 3,991 5,770 2,701 9,540 3,018 4,675 5,698 35,393
Solsonès 401 500 242 618 72 125 599 2,557
Tarragonès 5,248 8,518 4,535 13,754 7,113 5,298 5,526 49,994
Terra Alta 368 663 298 1,166 7 14 2 2,517
Urgell 543 873 393 1,903 66 980 659 5,415
Val d'Aran 454 361 44 0 3 588 1,489 2,939
Vallès Occidental (2) 10,202 18,945 12,368 26,078 4,441 15,133 11,282 98,448
Vallès Oriental 6,785 9,744 6,042 22,325 6,776 12,280 10,318 74,270
Commercial waste (3) 30,916 172,618 19,802 0 0 0 35,699 259,034
Catalonia 180,831 408,709 137,109 411,757 105,625 185,840 234,204 1,664,076
Metropolità 85,612 145,458 68,420 267,112 52,464 115,524 121,260 855,849
Comarques Gironines 21,107 26,444 13,276 35,650 20,648 22,551 23,517 163,192
Camp de Tarragona 10,867 18,468 9,919 30,747 16,413 12,112 16,320 114,846
Terres de l'Ebre 4,254 6,986 4,176 13,873 6,257 5,377 8,408 49,333
Ponent 5,834 8,083 4,953 17,727 1,686 4,833 2,835 45,951
Comarques Centrals 8,601 15,787 8,849 24,903 2,448 6,194 12,717 79,498
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,724 3,529 1,441 2,456 392 2,509 3,118 16,170
Penedès 10,918 11,337 6,271 19,289 5,316 16,741 10,330 80,202
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.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: September 26, 2012.

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 "..".