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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2005
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 206 25,602 91,498 117,100
Alt Empordà 354 3,278 48,195 51,473
Alt Penedès 658 7,476 161,503 168,979
Alt Urgell 46 2,262 1,618 3,880
Alta Ribagorça 11 17 136 153
Anoia 495 7,453 221,733 229,186
Bages 961 14,448 213,939 228,387
Baix Camp 371 19,997 107,848 127,845
Baix Ebre 164 4,705 46,417 51,122
Baix Empordà 348 6,011 57,842 63,853
Baix Llobregat 2,889 69,452 588,163 657,615
Baix Penedès 192 1,295 58,492 59,787
Barcelonès 2,797 60,615 494,238 554,853
Berguedà 157 2,228 138,639 140,867
Cerdanya 49 50 2,547 2,597
Conca de Barberà 101 1,638 26,426 28,064
Garraf 190 8,340 42,819 51,159
Garrigues 82 141 13,939 14,080
Garrotxa 407 5,502 88,373 93,875
Gironès 474 18,196 182,030 200,226
Maresme 1,294 33,402 147,291 180,693
Montsià 239 1,651 54,938 56,589
Noguera 126 1,101 67,652 68,753
Osona 990 14,228 280,474 294,702
Pallars Jussà 47 738 12,528 13,266
Pallars Sobirà 24 36 2,641 2,677
Pla d'Urgell 121 2,265 62,653 64,918
Pla de l'Estany 187 3,201 41,334 44,535
Priorat 110 65 5,833 5,898
Ribera d'Ebre 89 7,915 60,917 68,832
Ripollès 152 1,076 22,828 23,904
Segarra 62 2,430 111,292 113,722
Segrià 384 14,308 165,837 180,145
Selva 596 8,997 124,001 132,998
Solsonès 58 593 36,434 37,027
Tarragonès 377 56,987 190,829 247,816
Terra Alta 81 328 11,057 11,385
Urgell 116 396 22,140 22,536
Val d'Aran 13 83 661 744
Vallès Occidental 4,739 133,880 1,200,367 1,334,247
Vallès Oriental 2,400 243,701 375,673 619,374
Catalonia 23,157 786,087 5,583,775 6,369,862
Metropolità 14,967 556,866 3,010,054 3,566,920
Comarques Gironines 2,518 46,261 564,603 610,864
Camp de Tarragona 1,357 105,584 480,926 586,510
Terres de l'Ebre 573 14,599 173,329 187,928
Ponent 891 20,641 443,513 464,154
Comarques Centrals 2,661 38,950 891,219 930,169
Alt Pirineu i Aran 190 3,186 20,131 23,317
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 "..".