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Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and Aran, and areas

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2004
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 733 1,180 363 659 145 651 1,018 4,749
Alt Empordà 3,514 2,068 563 120 3,504 3,030 5,984 18,784
Alt Penedès 1,961 2,175 628 2,398 266 2,396 3,568 13,393
Alt Urgell 609 991 373 1,278 266 215 455 4,187
Alta Ribagorça 116 231 22 0 0 0 0 369
Anoia 1,279 1,933 338 2,182 284 396 831 7,244
Bages 2,428 4,619 1,781 3,194 590 1,901 3,904 18,419
Baix Camp 2,085 5,324 1,803 5,296 2,948 2,365 5,542 25,362
Baix Ebre 886 1,064 280 1,028 383 352 877 4,870
Baix Empordà 3,711 3,035 1,235 770 2,462 2,170 5,440 18,822
Baix Llobregat (2) 1,738 2,132 706 825 666 1,332 3,018 10,416
Baix Penedès 1,018 1,081 282 353 1,161 1,609 847 6,352
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 39,137 74,370 20,213 110,593 21,761 66,178 54,953 387,204
Berguedà 729 1,055 516 36 16 333 824 3,509
Cerdanya 479 517 93 188 1 76 139 1,491
Conca de Barberà 425 530 165 753 44 435 210 2,562
Garraf 3,020 3,784 1,101 5,059 1,418 10,528 4,769 29,680
Garrigues 359 280 133 0 0 118 10 901
Garrotxa 1,087 1,628 419 827 0 1,167 741 5,869
Gironès 2,680 5,805 1,391 1,647 1,450 3,844 2,441 19,258
Maresme (2) 5,574 10,008 3,973 6,505 1,379 5,839 10,124 43,401
Montsià 821 1,486 394 1,070 153 780 1,594 6,299
Noguera 716 418 191 0 0 93 132 1,550
Osona 3,115 7,755 1,839 3,874 478 2,303 3,415 22,779
Pallars Jussà 333 381 62 0 17 700 153 1,646
Pallars Sobirà 368 309 80 0 0 107 243 1,106
Pla d'Urgell 495 877 235 0 2 48 231 1,888
Pla de l'Estany 578 746 262 0 21 44 430 2,081
Priorat 165 299 65 41 2 0 3 573
Ribera d'Ebre 453 767 169 135 0 92 1,647 3,263
Ripollès 582 786 179 191 37 165 438 2,378
Segarra 485 618 951 1,653 0 336 79 4,122
Segrià 1,935 4,256 1,053 708 7 411 562 8,933
Selva 2,829 3,590 757 4,511 1,178 764 3,318 16,948
Solsonès 241 552 116 0 0 89 157 1,155
Tarragonès 3,377 6,978 1,569 4,978 2,592 2,907 8,063 30,464
Terra Alta 217 394 86 22 0 0 1 721
Urgell 342 643 234 634 2 887 834 3,575
Val d'Aran 555 268 7 0 0 180 909 1,919
Vallès Occidental (2) 7,016 15,430 5,116 7,091 3,899 12,883 11,263 62,698
Vallès Oriental 4,445 7,109 2,069 9,246 1,878 2,668 13,093 40,507
Commercial waste (3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Catalonia 102,636 177,470 51,811 177,866 49,010 130,393 152,260 841,446
Metropolità 62,891 115,007 33,805 141,719 31,268 101,824 100,787 587,300
Comarques Gironines 14,983 17,656 4,806 8,066 8,653 11,184 18,792 84,140
Camp de Tarragona 7,803 15,392 4,248 12,078 6,891 7,967 15,683 70,062
Terres de l'Ebre 2,377 3,710 929 2,256 536 1,225 4,119 15,152
Ponent 4,332 7,092 2,797 2,995 11 1,893 1,849 20,968
Comarques Centrals 7,793 15,915 4,590 9,287 1,367 5,022 9,132 53,106
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,459 2,698 636 1,465 284 1,278 1,899 10,719
Units: Tons.
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. Agència de Residus de Catalunya.
Notes:
(1) Includes selective collection of other municipal waste: batteries, medicines, textiles and other household waste.
(2) 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.
(3) Disaggregation of collection by counties not available.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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.

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 "..".