Treatment of waste by waste category, hazardousness and waste management operations

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On the basis of the Regulation on waste statistics (EC) No. 2150/2002, amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 849/2010, data on the generation and treatment of waste is collected from the Member States. The information on waste generation has a breakdown in sources (19 business activities according to the NACE classification and household activities) and in waste categories (according to the European Waste Classification for statistical purposes). The information on waste treatment is broken down to five treatment types (recovery, incineration with energy recovery, other incineration, disposal on land and land treatment) and in waste categories.
All values are measured in tonnes of waste and in kg per capita, based on the annual average of the population.
The Member States are free to decide on the data collection methods. The general options are: surveys, administrative sources, statistical estimations or some combination of methods.
For the first reference year 2004 Member States could apply for permission not to deliver part of the information: waste generated by agriculture and fishing and waste generated in the services sector. For this reason this information is missing for some of the countries.

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Source https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/env_wastrt/default/table?lang=en
Last Updated May 10, 2022, 09:34 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2022, 13:33 (UTC)
Access level Public
Data timespan 2004-2018
Data update frequency Annually
Geographical area EU, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Iceland
Language English
Organization Eurostat
Time interval Undefined