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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2004
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 195 21,768 80,981 102,749
Alt Empordà 350 1,815 41,124 42,939
Alt Penedès 633 8,841 187,715 196,556
Alt Urgell 46 1,939 4,973 6,912
Alta Ribagorça 9 50 651 701
Anoia 474 6,989 220,696 227,685
Bages 903 11,243 237,419 248,662
Baix Camp 355 13,635 88,288 101,923
Baix Ebre 154 1,936 51,723 53,659
Baix Empordà 338 8,591 50,664 59,255
Baix Llobregat 2,849 66,158 603,672 669,830
Baix Penedès 187 2,852 60,233 63,085
Barcelonès 2,805 48,377 541,064 589,441
Berguedà 150 1,009 205,841 206,850
Cerdanya 48 28 15,173 15,201
Conca de Barberà 95 1,200 30,339 31,539
Garraf 182 7,005 40,144 47,149
Garrigues 80 119 18,254 18,373
Garrotxa 403 6,844 86,991 93,835
Gironès 473 14,942 178,345 193,287
Maresme 1,266 29,887 153,229 183,116
Montsià 223 1,786 55,361 57,147
Noguera 118 949 63,424 64,373
Osona 960 14,336 279,289 293,625
Pallars Jussà 39 730 4,572 5,302
Pallars Sobirà 21 54 2,823 2,877
Pla d'Urgell 112 472 61,923 62,395
Pla de l'Estany 185 2,589 43,199 45,788
Priorat 89 82 9,204 9,286
Ribera d'Ebre 85 7,823 59,404 67,227
Ripollès 140 971 25,185 26,156
Segarra 59 1,826 112,362 114,188
Segrià 377 16,081 155,421 171,502
Selva 572 8,296 120,074 128,370
Solsonès 51 320 28,560 28,880
Tarragonès 364 48,821 175,361 224,182
Terra Alta 76 440 11,832 12,272
Urgell 114 460 29,267 29,727
Val d'Aran 12 70 1,117 1,187
Vallès Occidental 4,746 120,307 1,024,994 1,145,301
Vallès Oriental 2,373 222,229 366,544 588,773
Catalonia 22,711 703,869 5,527,433 6,231,302
Metropolità 14,854 502,804 2,917,362 3,420,166
Comarques Gironines 2,461 44,048 545,582 589,630
Camp de Tarragona 1,285 88,358 444,406 532,764
Terres de l'Ebre 538 11,985 178,320 190,305
Ponent 860 19,907 440,651 460,558
Comarques Centrals 2,538 33,897 971,805 1,005,702
Alt Pirineu i Aran 175 2,870 29,308 32,178
Units: Tons.
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
Industrial waste: data obtained from annual declarations of industrial waste.
Declaring establishments: nombre d'empreses que han enviat les declaracions demanades.
Waste: with the entry of the European Waste Catalogue, inert waste has disappeared, which is now considered special or not special.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".