Urban waste statistics

Identification

Name of the operation.
Urban waste statistics
Operation code.
090218 (Basque statistics plan)
Responsible body.
Department of the environment and regional policy. Basque governmen
Other participating bodies.
Provincial councils and eustat
Thematic area
Environment
Periodicity.
Yearly
Type of operation.
Census
Methodology according to the origin of the data.
Gathering of data from administrative information

Objectives

The main objectives of statistics on urban waste are:

  • Control and monitoring of urban waste.
  • To quantify urban waste in authorised landfill sites.
  • Characterisation of urban waste.

Main variables to be studied

Tonnage and percentage of waste generated.

Kilograms per capita of waste generated.

Kilograms per capita of waste managed.

Fraction of waste: parks and gardens, food and kitchen waste, paper and cardboard, glass, light packaging, non-packaging plastics, non-packaging metals, batteries, fluorescent tubes, other dangerous waste, textile, wood, cooking oils, medicines, x-rays, miscellaneous other, weee, bulk waste, cdw, other.

Processing operation and management type: recycling, composting, energy recovery, bio-stabilised matter disposal, disposal, generated water and biogas.

Origin of the waste: rh: household waste, rssi: similar waste from services and industries, rc: commercial waste.

Collection type: unsorted and selective collection.

Waste types: ewc codes.

Coverage

Population:

Urban waste generated and/or managed in the Basque country

Geographical:

Meaningful data are gathered on a regional and provincial level in the Basque country

Time frame:

The data gathered refer to activities registered over the year

Concepts and definitions

Concepts and definitions

dissemination

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