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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2012
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Auto compostatge Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 982 1,436 944 3,103 40 340 853 556 8,252
Alt Empordà 4,947 4,732 2,818 1,777 376 11,204 7,903 7,090 40,846
Alt Penedès 3,150 2,250 1,982 5,567 119 746 3,657 3,574 21,045
Alt Urgell 634 892 515 1,462 0 149 289 458 4,400
Alta Ribagorça 115 148 69 108 12 0 124 56 633
Anoia 1,831 2,141 1,242 3,796 276 574 1,408 1,903 13,171
Bages 3,364 4,282 3,163 8,560 97 1,789 2,530 8,203 31,988
Baix Camp 3,805 5,865 3,784 11,018 36 7,484 2,793 2,410 37,195
Baix Ebre 1,635 2,346 1,209 5,003 0 4,567 1,674 3,784 20,218
Baix Empordà 5,330 4,392 3,124 8,375 286 5,095 4,544 6,087 37,230
Baix Llobregat (2) 1,971 2,845 2,481 6,757 76 874 2,431 4,378 21,813
Baix Penedès 2,119 1,737 1,432 2,968 0 2,423 3,390 1,642 15,711
Barcelonès (BMA) (2) 56,395 87,619 38,685 162,264 494 27,011 56,707 68,767 497,942
Berguedà 877 857 659 1,614 132 22 476 540 5,179
Cerdanya 684 799 224 257 15 0 298 301 2,578
Conca de Barberà 539 678 354 1,494 0 100 692 1,401 5,258
Garraf 3,061 3,621 1,994 5,323 38 1,585 9,362 4,547 29,530
Garrigues 282 278 180 738 0 1 28 9 1,517
Garrotxa 1,260 1,860 798 2,808 71 504 1,486 1,141 9,929
Gironès 3,334 4,815 3,576 9,059 245 1,513 3,041 3,334 28,917
Maresme (2) 9,599 8,956 7,134 29,408 351 7,547 16,874 16,910 96,780
Montsià 1,439 2,159 2,009 5,941 0 433 1,770 3,264 17,017
Noguera 616 481 397 2,464 0 0 155 54 4,168
Osona 3,841 10,220 5,182 12,681 493 405 2,572 2,726 38,120
Pallars Jussà 399 478 256 461 93 184 361 145 2,377
Pallars Sobirà 320 361 134 0 169 1 141 259 1,385
Pla d'Urgell 718 816 912 3,015 0 8 346 803 6,618
Pla de l'Estany 670 979 586 1,327 111 1,179 223 533 5,607
Priorat 327 613 281 855 0 168 61 17 2,321
Ribera d'Ebre 820 1,146 550 1,445 0 566 779 555 5,860
Ripollès 755 1,016 506 1,668 0 51 1,068 1,134 6,198
Segarra 544 686 646 2,047 39 50 207 463 4,684
Segrià 2,931 3,989 2,272 6,706 63 1,323 2,579 1,202 21,066
Selva 4,969 6,109 2,873 9,378 371 2,810 3,230 4,781 34,521
Solsonès 362 457 259 568 130 57 184 301 2,317
Tarragonès 6,726 8,130 5,467 14,269 4 6,776 6,440 4,316 52,128
Terra Alta 401 755 329 1,184 0 4 7 7 2,686
Urgell 613 775 412 1,843 23 38 715 1,084 5,505
Val d'Aran 410 353 44 0 0 0 1,101 925 2,833
Vallès Occidental (2) 10,071 14,206 11,833 25,163 644 4,793 11,862 12,365 90,936
Vallès Oriental 6,625 7,325 5,863 21,663 304 7,127 10,421 12,326 71,655
Commercial waste (3) 19,752 114,606 18,199 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 152,557
Catalonia 169,222 318,211 135,378 384,136 5,106 99,504 164,782 184,350 1,460,690
Metropolità 84,661 120,951 65,997 245,255 1,869 47,351 98,295 114,746 779,125
Comarques Gironines 21,265 23,903 14,281 34,391 1,459 22,356 21,494 24,100 163,248
Camp de Tarragona 12,379 16,722 10,830 30,738 79 14,869 10,838 8,700 105,155
Terres de l'Ebre 4,295 6,405 4,097 13,573 0 5,570 4,230 7,610 45,781
Ponent 5,705 7,027 4,819 16,813 126 1,420 4,031 3,616 43,557
Comarques Centrals 8,443 15,815 9,265 23,424 851 2,274 5,762 11,770 77,603
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,561 3,031 1,242 2,288 290 335 2,314 2,145 14,206
Penedès 10,160 9,750 6,649 17,654 433 5,329 17,818 11,665 79,458
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 Barcelona Metropolitan Area (formerly known as Metropolitan Agency for Hydraulic Services and Waste Treatment (EMSHTR)) manages waste for El Barcelonès and some parts of El Baix Llobregat, El Maresme and El Vallès Occidental counties.
(3) Disaggregation of collection by counties not available.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: January 29, 2014.

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 "..".