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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2014
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 171 3,901 84,250 88,151
Alt Empordà 298 1,611 31,085 32,697
Alt Penedès 537 11,955 162,022 173,977
Alt Urgell 43 76 2,293 2,369
Alta Ribagorça 17 88 642 730
Anoia 385 5,230 168,395 173,625
Bages 708 4,258 138,135 142,393
Baix Camp 302 7,878 97,281 105,159
Baix Ebre 145 3,306 79,746 83,052
Baix Empordà 264 1,913 32,518 34,431
Baix Llobregat 1,548 31,593 375,740 407,333
Baix Penedès 148 2,522 45,734 48,256
Barcelonès 1,430 23,782 247,239 271,021
Berguedà 135 181 11,625 11,806
Cerdanya 45 59 4,234 4,293
Conca de Barberà 93 1,479 25,214 26,692
Garraf 110 909 25,901 26,811
Garrigues 99 190 31,074 31,264
Garrotxa 321 1,419 61,424 62,843
Gironès 326 12,844 85,177 98,021
Maresme 698 25,478 92,722 118,200
Montsià 175 1,598 45,498 47,095
Noguera 131 331 17,780 18,111
Osona 743 5,172 152,557 157,729
Pallars Jussà 59 141 2,081 2,222
Pallars Sobirà 32 9 1,896 1,905
Pla d'Urgell 118 369 68,496 68,866
Pla de l'Estany 142 3,066 30,824 33,891
Priorat 160 60 14,071 14,130
Ribera d'Ebre 87 1,214 60,971 62,186
Ripollès 132 821 22,335 23,157
Segarra 52 1,830 79,346 81,177
Segrià 382 1,062 83,674 84,736
Selva 395 3,119 110,991 114,110
Solsonès 52 185 5,179 5,364
Tarragonès 310 42,637 109,417 152,054
Terra Alta 94 48 11,091 11,140
Urgell 104 506 15,648 16,154
Val d'Aran 16 18 349 367
Vallès Occidental 2,497 95,917 821,074 916,991
Vallès Oriental 1,363 114,032 262,857 376,889
Catalonia 14,867 412,809 3,718,586 4,131,395
Metropolità 7,536 290,802 1,799,630 2,090,433
Comarques Gironines 1,878 24,794 374,355 399,149
Camp de Tarragona 1,036 55,954 330,233 386,187
Terres de l'Ebre 501 6,166 197,306 203,472
Ponent 886 4,288 296,018 300,307
Comarques Centrals 1,679 9,839 309,348 319,188
Alt Pirineu i Aran 212 391 11,496 11,886
Penedès 1,139 20,574 400,200 420,774
Units: Tons.
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs: nombre d'establiments que han presentat la declaració anual de residus industrials (DARI).
Waste: with the entry of the European Waste Catalogue, inert waste has disappeared, which is now considered special or not special.
From March 2014 onwards, eight municipalities in L'Anoia will change designation and will belong to El Penedès region of the Central Counties.
EDAR: Estacions depuradores d'aigues residuals urbanes.

Last update: February 24, 2016.

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 "..".