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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2007
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 1,052 1,827 681 2,564 143 887 1,306 8,460
Alt Empordà 4,408 6,256 1,481 1,489 6,810 5,887 5,802 32,132
Alt Penedès 2,818 3,373 1,718 4,144 357 4,881 3,730 21,021
Alt Urgell 695 1,259 481 1,347 189 273 733 4,978
Alta Ribagorça 128 197 53 0 0 37 100 515
Anoia 1,596 3,081 715 2,766 221 1,648 1,562 11,589
Bages 3,466 5,849 2,279 9,075 959 2,749 8,092 32,468
Baix Camp 3,515 7,601 2,832 9,901 3,661 2,721 7,649 37,881
Baix Ebre 1,188 1,493 488 1,186 499 2,812 1,283 8,949
Baix Empordà 4,906 3,874 1,862 3,010 2,461 9,608 5,301 31,023
Baix Llobregat (2) 2,247 3,579 1,574 4,514 1,810 3,839 4,923 22,486
Baix Penedès 1,690 2,078 740 1,176 2,369 2,571 2,545 13,170
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 51,509 135,279 30,929 132,865 21,434 80,439 59,674 512,130
Berguedà 964 1,331 825 853 27 295 1,094 5,388
Cerdanya 649 917 148 63 0 311 455 2,542
Conca de Barberà 514 736 249 1,408 858 487 654 4,906
Garraf 3,708 5,403 1,713 5,418 1,629 11,946 5,282 35,099
Garrigues 374 402 189 334 0 1 23 1,323
Garrotxa 1,348 2,150 550 1,471 0 926 1,001 7,447
Gironès 3,555 8,535 3,435 8,670 2,247 4,552 3,069 34,061
Maresme (2) 9,205 13,943 6,059 19,889 5,176 11,862 20,552 86,686
Montsià 1,221 2,096 1,094 2,961 121 1,769 1,909 11,172
Noguera 639 814 316 327 0 82 275 2,453
Osona 4,054 11,864 2,577 10,644 552 2,253 4,648 36,591
Pallars Jussà 676 976 330 648 4 40 265 2,939
Pallars Sobirà 461 441 123 0 0 2 384 1,410
Pla d'Urgell 553 956 300 0 2 109 421 2,341
Pla de l'Estany 607 1,299 449 813 756 162 1,428 5,513
Priorat 323 813 200 495 66 73 237 2,207
Ribera d'Ebre 768 1,843 445 1,258 391 320 1,438 6,462
Ripollès 786 1,290 400 1,270 0 1,125 1,032 5,903
Segarra 536 748 923 1,783 5 432 145 4,573
Segrià 3,002 6,350 1,986 6,530 1 1,796 1,975 21,639
Selva 4,114 5,615 1,726 6,031 1,053 1,870 4,619 25,027
Solsonès 307 942 194 0 0 77 284 1,804
Tarragonès 3,770 7,851 2,542 7,491 4,378 2,764 9,576 38,372
Terra Alta 366 569 157 527 0 0 31 1,650
Urgell 564 942 355 1,144 13 71 288 3,378
Val d'Aran 509 311 10 0 4 128 1,879 2,841
Vallès Occidental (2) 9,919 25,213 9,109 21,906 4,255 10,747 11,641 92,791
Vallès Oriental 6,730 11,970 4,306 18,287 2,603 4,777 14,823 63,497
Commercial waste (3) 62,326 116,678 17,378 7,901 0 0 0 204,283
Catalonia 201,764 408,744 103,923 302,157 65,052 177,327 192,129 1,451,096
Metropolità 86,136 198,760 55,408 207,023 37,264 128,491 120,626 833,708
Comarques Gironines 19,724 29,018 9,903 22,753 13,326 24,130 22,251 141,105
Camp de Tarragona 10,864 20,907 7,245 23,035 11,475 9,502 21,968 104,996
Terres de l'Ebre 3,543 6,001 2,184 5,931 1,011 4,901 4,661 28,233
Ponent 5,669 10,212 4,069 10,117 20 2,491 3,128 35,706
Comarques Centrals 10,386 23,067 6,590 23,339 1,759 7,020 15,679 87,840
Alt Pirineu i Aran 3,117 4,101 1,145 2,058 197 791 3,816 15,225
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 "..".