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Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas

Industrial waste. Counties and Aran, and areas 2019
Waste
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs Special Not special Total
Alt Camp 193 2,205 113,999 116,204
Alt Empordà 316 1,415 33,127 34,542
Alt Penedès 586 16,702 148,410 165,112
Alt Urgell 43 108 2,910 3,017
Alta Ribagorça 22 98 600 698
Anoia 402 3,962 147,585 151,546
Aran 23 248 1,368 1,616
Bages 687 9,072 135,074 144,145
Baix Camp 307 10,964 103,090 114,054
Baix Ebre 157 1,593 71,811 73,404
Baix Empordà 265 1,294 35,420 36,714
Baix Llobregat 1,794 32,838 447,160 479,997
Baix Penedès 152 2,572 37,579 40,151
Barcelonès 1,469 21,062 259,902 280,964
Berguedà 140 276 15,935 16,210
Cerdanya 42 11 4,404 4,415
Conca de Barberà 100 1,953 19,682 21,635
Garraf 124 1,359 35,488 36,846
Garrigues 102 435 41,935 42,370
Garrotxa 316 1,757 74,439 76,196
Gironès 373 19,079 107,203 126,283
Maresme 754 26,845 101,916 128,761
Moianès 56 72 16,102 16,174
Montsià 171 1,120 25,065 26,185
Noguera 124 334 21,784 22,118
Osona 788 4,650 166,183 170,832
Pallars Jussà 64 39 2,106 2,145
Pallars Sobirà 41 60 1,792 1,852
Pla d'Urgell 122 1,598 66,446 68,044
Pla de l'Estany 158 1,281 38,942 40,222
Priorat 187 21 16,331 16,352
Ribera d'Ebre 100 1,207 60,722 61,930
Ripollès 126 934 25,812 26,746
Segarra 62 2,355 97,887 100,241
Segrià 402 3,730 69,005 72,736
Selva 421 5,600 109,963 115,563
Solsonès 51 440 4,005 4,445
Tarragonès 341 63,977 99,265 163,242
Terra Alta 105 48 10,399 10,447
Urgell 108 1,054 26,328 27,382
Vallès Occidental 2,932 101,522 794,331 895,854
Vallès Oriental 1,566 112,933 318,019 430,951
Catalonia 16,292 458,820 3,909,523 4,368,342
Metropolità 8,527 295,220 1,929,177 2,224,397
Comarques Gironines 1,975 31,359 424,908 456,267
Camp de Tarragona 1,128 79,119 352,366 431,486
Terres de l'Ebre 533 3,969 167,997 171,966
Ponent 920 9,505 323,385 332,891
Comarques Centrals 1,753 14,576 331,154 345,729
Alt Pirineu i Aran 235 563 13,180 13,744
Penedès 1,221 24,507 367,356 391,863
Units: Tons.
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
Declaring industrial establishments and urban WWTPs: number of establishments and urban waste water treatment plants which have submitted the annual industrial waste declaration.
Waste: with the entry of the European Waste Catalogue, inert waste has disappeared, which is now considered special or not special.

Last update: May 4, 2021.

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 "..".