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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2008
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 1,047 1,799 730 2,553 233 1,036 1,200 8,597
Alt Empordà 4,407 6,478 1,958 1,636 6,638 5,429 7,820 34,366
Alt Penedès 3,073 3,379 1,919 4,321 416 4,026 3,964 21,098
Alt Urgell 677 1,256 488 1,338 261 269 646 4,935
Alta Ribagorça 167 206 74 0 0 85 139 671
Anoia 1,626 2,771 849 3,082 274 3,537 1,859 13,997
Bages 3,631 6,378 2,970 9,548 1,190 3,134 8,896 35,747
Baix Camp 3,697 8,118 3,537 10,913 10,186 2,818 8,579 47,848
Baix Ebre 1,310 1,699 655 1,896 764 2,723 2,196 11,244
Baix Empordà 5,391 4,736 2,431 3,411 3,069 1,902 7,664 28,604
Baix Llobregat (2) 2,425 3,467 1,757 4,717 1,272 1,851 5,142 20,631
Baix Penedès 2,079 2,139 921 1,516 3,493 2,451 2,929 15,527
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 54,320 138,298 34,002 133,638 28,836 45,938 63,909 498,942
Berguedà 950 1,280 876 1,290 21 286 1,014 5,718
Cerdanya 650 987 180 0 0 291 420 2,527
Conca de Barberà 578 779 302 1,394 599 1,086 1,174 5,912
Garraf 4,534 5,971 2,201 6,007 1,943 9,504 5,381 35,541
Garrigues 378 428 184 428 0 0 26 1,443
Garrotxa 1,456 2,403 622 1,932 0 548 1,161 8,121
Gironès 3,621 7,827 3,564 9,219 2,093 2,780 3,708 32,813
Maresme (2) 9,122 13,248 6,169 25,720 5,468 13,544 22,511 95,782
Montsià 1,506 3,555 2,040 5,824 226 1,923 2,442 17,517
Noguera 650 799 395 1,984 0 24 206 4,058
Osona 4,527 9,727 4,336 11,075 621 2,300 4,925 37,512
Pallars Jussà 245 380 143 350 8 72 281 1,479
Pallars Sobirà 388 477 163 0 7 2 284 1,322
Pla d'Urgell 576 982 345 0 18 119 636 2,678
Pla de l'Estany 657 1,239 574 875 1,074 182 1,203 5,804
Priorat 433 827 279 544 50 57 260 2,450
Ribera d'Ebre 1,128 1,898 512 1,269 260 470 1,597 7,135
Ripollès 802 1,580 448 1,718 0 1,033 1,258 6,839
Segarra 564 879 648 1,882 11 573 337 4,894
Segrià 3,165 6,353 2,196 6,411 3 659 1,569 20,356
Selva 4,330 5,950 2,239 5,940 5,269 1,352 4,733 29,813
Solsonès 358 870 207 0 13 1 253 1,702
Tarragonès 4,695 8,637 3,195 8,824 6,065 2,295 7,124 40,834
Terra Alta 455 730 210 512 0 0 1 1,907
Urgell 613 940 368 1,269 4 1,056 366 4,616
Val d'Aran 517 408 20 0 4 132 1,885 2,966
Vallès Occidental (2) 10,323 25,176 10,664 23,177 3,184 11,516 12,614 96,653
Vallès Oriental 6,506 11,258 4,958 19,591 3,110 5,078 13,258 63,759
Commercial waste (3) 56,811 114,400 15,570 0 0 0 0 186,781
Catalonia 204,386 410,714 115,895 315,804 86,684 132,082 205,570 1,471,135
Metropolità 90,304 200,798 61,669 217,170 44,229 91,456 126,779 832,405
Comarques Gironines 20,664 30,213 11,835 24,731 18,143 13,227 27,547 146,359
Camp de Tarragona 12,528 22,298 8,964 25,743 20,625 9,743 21,265 121,167
Terres de l'Ebre 4,399 7,883 3,417 9,502 1,251 5,116 6,236 37,803
Ponent 5,946 10,382 4,135 11,974 36 2,432 3,139 38,044
Comarques Centrals 11,093 21,026 9,238 24,996 2,118 9,258 16,947 94,675
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,642 3,715 1,067 1,688 280 851 3,656 13,900
Units: Tons.
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. 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: June 17, 2010.

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 "..".