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:
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Urban waste generated and/or managed in the Basque country
- Geographical:
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Meaningful data are gathered on a regional and provincial level in the Basque country
- Time frame:
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The data gathered refer to activities registered over the year
Concepts and definitions
Concepts and definitions
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