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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2005
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 655 1,400 440 1,011 116 731 879 5,233
Alt Empordà 3,341 3,777 942 515 2,656 1,488 6,098 18,816
Alt Penedès 2,463 2,641 976 3,013 342 2,840 3,407 15,682
Alt Urgell 670 1,078 417 1,370 220 249 451 4,455
Alta Ribagorça 104 204 13 0 0 0 0 321
Anoia 1,299 2,487 482 2,202 211 880 1,411 8,973
Bages 2,924 4,888 1,715 5,935 971 5,471 5,748 27,653
Baix Camp 2,692 5,670 2,191 8,578 9,173 2,677 9,809 40,790
Baix Ebre 902 1,148 339 1,047 487 621 1,236 5,778
Baix Empordà 3,832 3,205 1,320 1,290 3,029 2,254 5,746 20,677
Baix Llobregat (2) 1,676 2,227 853 1,181 771 1,423 3,996 12,127
Baix Penedès 1,260 1,347 377 948 1,253 1,616 1,490 8,291
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 42,274 114,987 23,164 108,683 25,674 66,320 52,622 433,723
Berguedà 812 1,178 647 658 7 296 925 4,524
Cerdanya 475 733 130 160 14 122 368 2,001
Conca de Barberà 430 578 192 1,090 0 147 334 2,771
Garraf 3,059 4,212 1,181 4,686 420 9,689 4,335 27,582
Garrigues 335 304 157 0 0 20 6 823
Garrotxa 1,090 1,983 428 1,281 0 544 901 6,227
Gironès 3,039 6,680 2,497 4,884 1,689 3,743 2,931 25,463
Maresme (2) 5,809 10,435 3,323 15,177 3,936 8,066 11,659 58,406
Montsià 862 1,528 465 1,378 105 674 1,357 6,369
Noguera 645 503 241 0 0 62 160 1,610
Osona 3,839 7,849 3,427 5,715 559 2,282 4,084 27,755
Pallars Jussà 317 414 105 12 45 400 245 1,538
Pallars Sobirà 357 334 78 0 0 692 209 1,670
Pla d'Urgell 505 843 282 0 3 48 238 1,919
Pla de l'Estany 539 897 308 310 431 98 619 3,203
Priorat 266 419 101 339 4 10 55 1,194
Ribera d'Ebre 672 1,100 253 536 39 109 2,664 5,372
Ripollès 575 877 229 615 0 708 47 3,051
Segarra 474 611 992 1,579 6 533 51 4,247
Segrià 2,226 4,999 1,178 1,497 10 434 985 11,328
Selva 2,832 4,365 991 4,111 838 558 3,845 17,541
Solsonès 269 291 412 0 0 95 196 1,264
Tarragonès 3,066 6,532 1,686 5,902 1,923 3,240 5,521 27,871
Terra Alta 341 543 130 83 0 0 0 1,097
Urgell 379 593 240 589 11 758 1,069 3,639
Val d'Aran 468 240 12 0 8 378 1,650 2,756
Vallès Occidental (2) 7,490 19,126 6,503 16,688 3,242 15,416 10,263 78,729
Vallès Oriental 4,894 8,983 2,720 12,312 1,956 6,869 13,598 51,332
Commercial waste (3) 51,233 169,620 9,868 0 0 0 0 230,720
Catalonia 161,391 401,827 72,006 215,373 60,151 142,562 161,208 1,214,518
Metropolità 67,665 162,611 38,720 161,741 36,342 110,624 99,879 677,581
Comarques Gironines 15,248 21,783 6,716 13,005 8,645 9,393 20,188 94,977
Camp de Tarragona 8,370 15,946 4,988 17,867 12,470 8,420 18,089 86,149
Terres de l'Ebre 2,777 4,318 1,187 3,044 631 1,403 5,257 18,616
Ponent 4,564 7,852 3,090 3,665 30 1,857 2,509 23,566
Comarques Centrals 9,144 16,695 6,684 14,510 1,748 9,025 12,363 70,169
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,391 3,003 754 1,542 286 1,841 2,923 12,740
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 "..".