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

Municipal waste. Selective collection. Counties and areas 2010
Glass Paper Tins and packaging Organic material Pruning & gardening Voluminous waste Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 953 1,661 756 2,676 257 1,048 590 7,941
Alt Empordà 6,034 6,887 2,711 1,710 6,921 7,327 5,218 36,808
Alt Penedès 3,297 3,171 1,874 5,243 706 4,417 3,821 22,528
Alt Urgell 611 1,145 525 1,540 271 359 513 4,963
Alta Ribagorça 132 186 70 98 0 145 68 699
Anoia 1,766 2,601 1,110 4,154 322 1,797 805 12,555
Bages 3,492 5,039 3,662 9,812 1,909 9,009 6,850 39,773
Baix Camp 3,916 7,117 4,012 11,933 10,117 3,963 8,409 49,467
Baix Ebre 1,618 2,594 1,134 4,598 4,016 2,081 4,556 20,596
Baix Empordà 5,910 5,281 3,825 7,352 5,061 4,521 6,604 38,554
Baix Llobregat (2) 2,513 4,087 3,329 7,981 3,117 3,607 5,074 29,708
Baix Penedès 2,099 2,347 1,440 3,397 2,734 2,495 2,085 16,597
Barcelonès (EMSHTR) (2) 55,519 126,182 39,786 185,586 33,519 67,720 78,354 586,666
Berguedà 962 1,193 821 1,845 21 484 653 5,979
Cerdanya 787 917 219 206 0 389 477 2,995
Conca de Barberà 576 782 439 1,534 82 709 1,180 5,302
Garraf 3,565 6,758 1,933 5,850 1,930 12,144 4,968 37,148
Garrigues 309 388 190 834 1 65 16 1,802
Garrotxa 1,386 2,595 836 2,647 442 1,647 1,138 10,691
Gironès 3,525 6,916 3,707 9,438 1,608 2,862 2,972 31,028
Maresme (2) 9,847 13,359 7,373 30,445 9,319 22,109 20,106 112,557
Montsià 1,507 2,404 2,196 6,296 256 2,714 3,130 18,503
Noguera 724 777 408 2,469 0 240 15 4,634
Osona 3,947 9,647 4,653 12,761 649 3,345 3,269 38,271
Pallars Jussà 419 506 265 500 6 323 234 2,253
Pallars Sobirà 348 311 137 0 2 136 272 1,206
Pla d'Urgell 791 1,112 957 3,231 43 126 177 6,436
Pla de l'Estany 677 1,128 644 1,320 1,317 500 857 6,442
Priorat 415 616 292 878 20 61 268 2,550
Ribera d'Ebre 1,107 1,456 609 1,643 479 867 268 6,428
Ripollès 773 1,126 524 1,838 66 933 1,177 6,437
Segarra 560 752 642 1,966 66 1,031 235 5,252
Segrià 3,086 5,400 2,218 6,947 83 1,677 651 20,062
Selva 3,841 5,430 2,559 6,966 3,988 4,591 4,281 31,656
Solsonès 363 507 229 404 7 195 197 1,902
Tarragonès 4,888 8,491 3,892 13,099 6,155 5,766 5,187 47,479
Terra Alta 430 705 305 948 6 12 5 2,410
Urgell 567 903 420 1,601 18 1,109 380 4,998
Val d'Aran 463 395 11 0 3 621 1,659 3,152
Vallès Occidental (2) 10,514 23,041 12,144 25,721 4,956 15,429 11,065 102,870
Vallès Oriental 7,516 12,104 6,253 22,506 6,515 10,913 10,138 75,945
Commercial waste (3) 35,285 176,871 17,439 0 0 0 7,938 237,534
Catalonia 187,038 454,888 136,547 409,973 106,988 199,487 205,857 1,700,777
Metropolità 92,771 188,702 72,690 283,332 60,062 136,339 133,526 967,422
Comarques Gironines 22,146 29,363 14,807 31,271 19,403 22,381 22,246 161,617
Camp de Tarragona 12,847 21,014 10,832 33,517 19,365 14,042 17,718 129,335
Terres de l'Ebre 4,662 7,159 4,243 13,485 4,757 5,674 7,958 47,937
Ponent 6,037 9,332 4,835 17,048 211 4,248 1,474 43,184
Comarques Centrals 10,530 18,987 10,475 28,976 2,908 14,830 11,773 98,480
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,760 3,460 1,226 2,344 282 1,973 3,223 15,268
Units: Tons.
Source: 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: October 5, 2012.

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 "..".