Municipal waste. By destination. Counties and Aran, and areas
Destination | ||||||
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Generation coefficient (kg/inh/day) | Landfill | Incinerator | Methanogenesis | Selective collection | Total | |
Alt Camp | 1.23 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 6,878 | 4,726 | 8,648 | 20,252 |
Alt Empordà | 2.30 | 77,952 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 39,812 | 117,764 |
Alt Penedès | 1.40 | 34,005 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 19,946 | 53,952 |
Alt Urgell | 1.22 | 5,060 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 4,701 | 9,761 |
Alta Ribagorça | 1.63 | 1,465 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 1,079 | 2,544 |
Anoia | 1.47 | 50,453 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 856 | 12,409 | 63,718 |
Bages | 1.22 | 48,830 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 33,947 | 82,776 |
Baix Camp | 1.58 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 34,694 | 27,377 | 48,470 | 110,540 |
Baix Ebre | 1.54 | 24,589 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 21,968 | 46,558 |
Baix Empordà | 2.17 | 70,903 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 34,473 | 105,376 |
Baix Llobregat (1) | 1.34 | 36,083 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 1,748 | 29,921 | 67,752 |
Baix Penedès | 1.93 | 49,375 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 5,837 | 15,995 | 71,206 |
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (1) | 1.29 | 164,121 | 177,695 | 618,310 | 546,496 | 1,506,622 |
Berguedà | 1.32 | 14,505 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 5,574 | 20,079 |
Cerdanya | 1.88 | 9,982 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 2,933 | 12,915 |
Conca de Barberà | 1.43 | 5,738 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 5,405 | 11,143 |
Garraf | 1.63 | 55,393 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 31,852 | 87,245 |
Garrigues | 1.03 | 5,923 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 1,679 | 7,602 |
Garrotxa | 1.46 | 18,342 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 11,278 | 29,620 |
Gironès | 1.17 | 14,984 | 32,897 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 30,114 | 77,996 |
Maresme (1) | 1.63 | 5,912 | 126,689 | 8,368 | 106,714 | 247,683 |
Montsià | 1.35 | 16,066 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 19,625 | 35,691 |
Noguera | 1.12 | 12,085 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 4,385 | 16,469 |
Osona | 1.18 | 29,050 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 37,421 | 66,471 |
Pallars Jussà | 1.39 | 4,224 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 3,093 | 7,318 |
Pallars Sobirà | 1.55 | 2,850 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 1,424 | 4,275 |
Pla d'Urgell | 1.11 | 8,075 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 7,065 | 15,140 |
Pla de l'Estany | 1.37 | 9,564 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 6,063 | 15,628 |
Priorat | 1.29 | 2,430 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 2,329 | 4,759 |
Ribera d'Ebre | 1.24 | 5,596 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 5,223 | 10,819 |
Ripollès | 1.57 | 9,108 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 6,058 | 15,166 |
Segarra | 1.07 | 4,455 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 4,602 | 9,058 |
Segrià | 1.16 | 64,738 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 22,805 | 87,543 |
Selva | 1.85 | 80,864 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 35,393 | 116,257 |
Solsonès | 1.35 | 4,258 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 2,557 | 6,815 |
Tarragonès | 1.62 | 3,266 | 76,673 | 17,792 | 49,994 | 147,726 |
Terra Alta | 0.96 | 1,967 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 2,517 | 4,484 |
Urgell | 1.18 | 10,693 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 5,415 | 16,108 |
Val d'Aran | 2.33 | 5,725 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 2,939 | 8,664 |
Vallès Occidental (1) | 1.19 | 76 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 171,965 | 98,448 | 270,489 |
Vallès Oriental | 1.34 | 95,955 | 25,361 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 74,270 | 195,586 |
Non county | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 259,034 | 259,034 |
Catalonia | 1.48 | 1,064,659 | 480,886 | 856,980 | 1,664,076 | 4,066,600 |
Metropolità | 1.33 | 302,146 | 329,745 | 800,391 | 855,849 | 2,288,132 |
Comarques Gironines | 1.82 | 281,717 | 32,897 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 163,192 | 477,806 |
Camp de Tarragona | 1.58 | 11,434 | 118,245 | 49,895 | 114,846 | 294,419 |
Terres de l'Ebre | 1.44 | 48,219 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 49,333 | 97,551 |
Ponent | 1.16 | 105,969 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 45,951 | 151,920 |
Comarques Centrals | 1.23 | 96,643 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 79,498 | 176,141 |
Alt Pirineu i Aran | 1.68 | 29,306 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 16,170 | 45,476 |
Penedès | 1.62 | 189,226 | .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available | 6,693 | 80,202 | 276,121 |
Units: Tons. | ||||||
Source: Agència de Residus de Catalunya. | ||||||
Notes: | ||||||
(1) The Metropolitan Agency for Hydraulic Services and Waste Treatment (EMSHTR) manages waste for Barcelonès and some of the counties of Baix Llobregat, Maresme and Vallès Occidental. | ||||||
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years. | ||||||
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available. |
Last update: November 24, 2014.
Methodological note
Definition of concepts
- Landfill
- Place where waste is dumped above or underground, including internal landfills (located in the place where the waste is produced) and not including facilities where waste is dumped to be prepared for posterior transport for recuperation, treatment or elimination somewhere else, or the temporary dumping of waste (less than two years for non-dangerous waste and six months for dangerous waste) before being eliminated.
- Incineration
- Controlled technical process that uses thermal decomposition, usually by means of oxidisation, to turn waste into less voluminous, non-toxic or non-harmful materials. The thermal destruction of waste involves exposing it to high temperatures, almost always in an oxidant medium. For waste to be destroyed by incineration, it must consist totally or partially of components that are combustible or that can be adapted to such a condition.
- Methanisation
- Anaerobic digestion. This involves controlled fermentation of the organic matter. The biological organisms that degrade the matter need an oxygen-free (anaerobic) atmosphere. This process releases biogas.
- Selective collection
- Differentiated collection of fermentable organic materials and recyclable materials, and any other system of differentiated collection that enables the separation of useful materials contained in waste.
- Municipal waste
- Domestic waste and waste from shops, services, offices and other waste that, due to its nature or composition, may be similar to domestic waste.
- Mechanical and biological treatment
- Treatment that is applied to both selectively collected and non-selectively collected organic matter before the final disposal. It consists of mechanically separating and classifying recyclable materials that may have been left in the waste, and treating the remaining organic matter through biological processes (composting or methanation).
Methodological aspects
The European Union indicates that one of the areas of political action is waste management, in accordance with the basic principles of generating the minimum amount and managing it efficiently.
The availability of regular, representative and reliable data on the generation, collection and treatment of waste provides information describing the situation and state of waste, as well as making comparison between different territories possible.
The Catalan Waste Agency publishes annual data on the generation of municipal waste, on the basis of data provided by different local entities responsible for the collection and treatment of municipal waste.
From 2003, including for the calculation of generation per capita, the registered population has been used. In 2002, the Population and Housing Census 2001 was used, and in 2001 and 2000 the Population Statistics 1996 were used. Note that the seasonal tourist population supported by some municipalities has a higher generation of waste per capita.
In terms of selective collection, the difference between the total from adding the geographic partials (counties and areas of the territorial plan) and the total published for Catalonia is due to the existence of commercial waste that cannot be attributed to specific territories. The "Others" category includes waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), batteries, medications, textiles, rubble and other special waste. Home composting, which was considered for the first time in 2012, has been included in the "Organic Material" category.
Provisional data.
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 "..".
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