Thousand tonnes of industrial and commercial waste by Substance Oriented Classification (SOC) group and management

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Area 1

Year

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Management

Management 1

SOC group

SOC = Standard Oriented Classification<br />I = Industrial wastes<br />C = Commercial wastes

SOC group 1

SOC group 2

SOC group 3

Total

Total

Land disposal

Incineration without energy recovery

Incineration with energy recovery

Treatment

Transfer station

Recycling

Composting

Reused

Land recovery

Don't know

Total

1,397.7

27.1

23.0

107.0

120.7

1,356.5

51.1

348.3

71.4

70.6

Total

Industrial wastes sub-total

550.2

8.7

7.5

78.0

39.8

764.9

31.1

331.5

71.4

12.9

1,896.2

Industrial wastes sub-total

Chemical wastes (I)

8.2

2.3

0.7

47.5

0.7

17.7

0.0

8.1

0.1

3.3

88.5

Metallic wastes (I)

0.5

0.0

0.5

7.6

1.0

255.5

0.0

1.4

0.0

0.2

266.6

Health care wastes (I)

0.0

3.6

0.0

3.6

Non-metalic wastes (I)

20.2

1.7

4.7

0.3

8.0

258.6

0.6

12.9

0.0

0.7

307.6

Discarded equipment (I)

0.0

1.1

0.1

1.8

0.0

0.1

0.0

3.2

Animal & vegetable wastes (I)

5.8

1.0

0.1

0.5

0.0

106.8

5.2

175.3

54.9

0.3

350.0

Mixed ordinary wastes (I)

213.3

0.1

1.5

0.4

27.3

6.3

0.0

7.2

256.2

Common sludges (I)

12.8

0.0

8.7

0.0

6.3

25.1

0.0

16.5

0.6

70.0

Mineral wastes (I)

289.4

0.0

11.9

2.6

112.0

0.3

133.7

0.0

0.4

550.3

Commercial wastes sub-total

847.5

18.4

15.4

29.0

80.9

591.5

20.0

16.8

0.0

57.7

1,677.2

Commercial wastes sub-total

Chemical wastes (C)

2.3

0.1

11.3

10.1

0.3

11.8

0.0

1.2

0.0

0.8

37.9

Metallic wastes (C)

0.3

0.0

0.8

65.2

0.0

66.3

Health care wastes (C)

6.0

6.7

1.3

0.4

0.0

0.7

15.2

Non-metalic wastes (C)

51.4

8.9

1.1

1.5

11.2

468.8

0.9

6.3

0.0

7.1

557.1

Discarded equipment (C)

0.7

0.1

0.0

10.6

1.3

18.5

0.0

1.9

0.0

1.4

34.5

Animal & vegetable wastes (C)

19.4

1.5

1.8

1.2

2.3

19.0

0.7

0.0

2.2

49.3

Mixed ordinary wastes (C)

755.9

1.1

0.0

1.9

65.3

22.5

0.0

16.4

863.1

Common sludges (C)

0.0

2.8

0.0

7.4

10.2

Mineral wastes (C)

11.6

0.0

0.4

0.8

2.5

0.1

6.6

0.0

21.7

43.6

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