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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and areas 2010
Waste
Declaring establishments Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 158 7,424 86,855 94,278
Alt Empordà 294 1,624 38,712 40,337
Alt Penedès 571 9,990 141,130 151,119
Alt Urgell 44 78 6,429 6,507
Alta Ribagorça 12 64 1,062 1,126
Anoia 394 5,261 181,845 187,105
Bages 741 8,830 178,345 187,175
Baix Camp 315 11,535 106,633 118,169
Baix Ebre 156 2,825 65,281 68,106
Baix Empordà 275 3,281 43,827 47,108
Baix Llobregat 1,769 41,265 384,376 425,641
Baix Penedès 167 1,716 52,917 54,633
Barcelonès 1,591 31,011 273,799 304,810
Berguedà 134 363 66,713 67,076
Cerdanya 49 69 4,458 4,527
Conca de Barberà 95 1,727 30,454 32,181
Garraf 129 2,081 33,041 35,122
Garrigues 95 220 29,440 29,659
Garrotxa 328 4,339 67,880 72,219
Gironès 346 11,209 113,713 124,922
Maresme 786 23,764 120,569 144,333
Montsià 199 4,688 60,918 65,606
Noguera 122 31 17,411 17,441
Osona 798 5,586 237,477 243,063
Pallars Jussà 57 221 2,258 2,478
Pallars Sobirà 24 14 1,029 1,043
Pla d'Urgell 115 485 48,988 49,473
Pla de l'Estany 160 2,742 25,562 28,304
Priorat 139 75 13,464 13,539
Ribera d'Ebre 89 1,373 55,968 57,341
Ripollès 125 832 22,751 23,583
Segarra 55 3,418 89,191 92,610
Segrià 366 2,300 92,516 94,816
Selva 416 5,442 118,717 124,158
Solsonès 55 1,709 24,899 26,608
Tarragonès 319 40,918 104,911 145,829
Terra Alta 79 9 13,439 13,448
Urgell 107 721 20,062 20,783
Val d'Aran 16 61 1,591 1,653
Vallès Occidental 2,811 110,102 886,439 996,541
Vallès Oriental 1,500 118,846 330,069 448,915
Catalonia 16,001 468,248 4,195,137 4,663,386
Metropolità 9,157 337,059 2,169,423 2,506,482
Comarques Gironines 1,944 29,469 431,161 460,630
Camp de Tarragona 1,193 63,395 395,234 458,628
Terres de l'Ebre 523 8,895 195,606 204,501
Ponent 860 7,175 297,608 304,782
Comarques Centrals 2,122 21,750 689,278 711,028
Alt Pirineu i Aran 202 506 16,828 17,334
Units: Tons.
Source: 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: September 26, 2012.

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.

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 "..".