Skip to main content

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2021
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 191 2,771 104,301 107,072
Alt Empordà 308 3,757 34,927 38,683
Alt Penedès 596 14,500 140,932 155,432
Alt Urgell 46 31 1,872 1,903
Alta Ribagorça 21 49 389 439
Anoia 407 3,698 105,429 109,127
Aran 26 47 1,189 1,236
Bages 684 4,944 127,820 132,765
Baix Camp 302 13,733 96,477 110,210
Baix Ebre 166 883 83,789 84,672
Baix Empordà 253 794 33,550 34,345
Baix Llobregat 1,808 29,853 409,365 439,218
Baix Penedès 156 2,890 42,461 45,351
Barcelonès 1,425 23,495 253,732 277,227
Berguedà 137 322 15,778 16,100
Cerdanya 39 4 6,688 6,692
Conca de Barberà 92 1,663 22,113 23,775
Garraf 135 828 39,507 40,335
Garrigues 105 169 42,777 42,946
Garrotxa 311 2,122 86,983 89,105
Gironès 387 19,430 142,493 161,923
Maresme 706 28,363 105,310 133,673
Moianès 55 79 18,725 18,804
Montsià 177 1,457 30,245 31,702
Noguera 123 401 12,187 12,588
Osona 753 6,580 165,743 172,323
Pallars Jussà 66 34 4,190 4,224
Pallars Sobirà 41 3 1,661 1,664
Pla d'Urgell 118 493 96,638 97,132
Pla de l'Estany 159 8,996 33,654 42,650
Priorat 193 10 14,176 14,186
Ribera d'Ebre 97 2,106 52,076 54,182
Ripollès 132 986 27,051 28,037
Segarra 66 2,868 97,170 100,038
Segrià 421 2,516 65,858 68,374
Selva 404 5,573 128,279 133,852
Solsonès 56 551 9,081 9,632
Tarragonès 363 62,051 110,995 173,045
Terra Alta 101 56 10,800 10,856
Urgell 109 1,232 24,864 26,096
Vallès Occidental 2,865 109,314 726,448 835,764
Vallès Oriental 1,592 146,872 349,135 496,007
Catalonia 16,192 506,525 3,876,859 4,383,385
Metropolità 8,409 337,934 1,853,202 2,191,137
Comarques Gironines 1,954 41,657 486,936 528,594
Camp de Tarragona 1,141 80,227 348,063 428,290
Terres de l'Ebre 541 4,502 176,910 181,412
Ponent 942 7,680 339,492 347,171
Comarques Centrals 1,714 12,539 330,350 342,889
Alt Pirineu i Aran 239 169 15,991 16,160
Penedès 1,252 21,817 325,914 347,732
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 11, 2023.

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 "..".