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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2007
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 150 17,749 102,165 119,914
Alt Empordà 236 5,122 69,566 74,688
Alt Penedès 526 6,356 181,502 187,857
Alt Urgell 39 912 14,459 15,371
Alta Ribagorça 4 72 663 736
Anoia 366 4,874 220,403 225,276
Bages 734 13,766 232,488 246,254
Baix Camp 272 11,672 120,750 132,422
Baix Ebre 125 5,739 66,780 72,520
Baix Empordà 245 1,486 46,122 47,608
Baix Llobregat 1,884 51,884 542,461 594,346
Baix Penedès 129 959 60,072 61,032
Barcelonès 1,711 46,517 336,461 382,978
Berguedà 116 5,068 161,174 166,242
Cerdanya 38 782 3,915 4,696
Conca de Barberà 81 1,743 28,124 29,867
Garraf 113 8,380 41,529 49,908
Garrigues 66 320 17,075 17,395
Garrotxa 314 1,407 86,217 87,624
Gironès 324 23,327 149,433 172,759
Maresme 820 34,251 123,840 158,091
Montsià 175 2,441 72,913 75,354
Noguera 100 934 22,723 23,656
Osona 760 9,416 280,595 290,012
Pallars Jussà 41 71 2,093 2,164
Pallars Sobirà 17 56 2,358 2,414
Pla d'Urgell 99 3,136 28,942 32,078
Pla de l'Estany 145 319 65,638 65,958
Priorat 106 77 9,303 9,380
Ribera d'Ebre 78 5,794 75,594 81,388
Ripollès 116 816 26,649 27,465
Segarra 49 1,908 113,382 115,289
Segrià 286 4,816 187,688 192,504
Selva 407 15,760 151,360 167,120
Solsonès 48 326 31,117 31,442
Tarragonès 267 66,099 141,727 207,826
Terra Alta 62 10 11,193 11,203
Urgell 94 531 26,103 26,634
Val d'Aran 11 58 884 942
Vallès Occidental 2,982 138,873 1,066,354 1,205,227
Vallès Oriental 1,607 165,474 413,025 578,499
Catalonia 15,743 659,298 5,334,842 5,994,140
Metropolità 9,643 451,735 2,705,172 3,156,907
Comarques Gironines 1,787 48,236 594,986 643,222
Camp de Tarragona 1,005 98,298 462,142 560,441
Terres de l'Ebre 440 13,984 226,480 240,464
Ponent 694 11,644 395,913 407,557
Comarques Centrals 2,024 33,449 925,777 959,226
Alt Pirineu i Aran 150 1,951 24,372 26,323
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: October 13, 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 "..".