Type of plant | Waste treatment plants, total | Total input | Of which | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
wastes produced on site | wastes delivered by | ||||
domestic producers | foreign producers | ||||
number | 1,000 t | ||||
1: Landfill construction is counted as a separate facility. 2: Results of the previous year. - = No figures (exactly zero). | |||||
Landfills | 1,142 | 42,054.3 | 12,002.4 | 29,431.4 | 620.5 |
Landfill construction1 | 432 | 13,348.5 | - | 13,348.5 | - |
Thermal waste treatment plants | 167 | 24,807.9 | 1,743.2 | 21,820.1 | 1,244.5 |
Combustion plants with energy recovery | 705 | 21,296.1 | 3,866.4 | 16,216.5 | 1,213.2 |
Chemical-physical treatment plants | 552 | 9,253.6 | 4,701.9 | 4,215.5 | 336.3 |
Soil treatment plants | 114 | 3,757.6 | 216.9 | 3,456.7 | 84.1 |
Biological treatment plants | 2,462 | 14,658.0 | 1,455.2 | 13,105.7 | 97.1 |
Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 58 | 4,166.6 | 68.3 | 4,050.8 | 47.5 |
Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,331 | 504.5 | - | 501.3 | 3.3 |
Shredding plants and scrap shears | 733 | 14,596.7 | 307.5 | 13,470.0 | 819.2 |
Sorting plants | 1,094 | 24,831.6 | 559.9 | 23,703.2 | 568.5 |
Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 321 | 861.6 | 3.0 | 805.9 | 52.7 |
Other treatment plants | 782 | 23,605.4 | 2,909.9 | 18,555.0 | 2,140.5 |
Including | |||||
Waste oil recycling plants | 7 | 510.2 | 0.1 | 381.6 | 128.5 |
Construction and demolition waste treatment plants2 | 2,172 | 63,633.4 | - | 63,633.4 | - |
Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes2 | 535 | 12,064.9 | - | 12,064.9 | - |
Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 19 | 26,753.6 | 26,753.6 | - | - |
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,945 | 89,623.0 | 1,768.7 | 86,789.8 | 1,064.5 |
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 22 | 2,483.1 | 9.6 | 2,203.7 | 269.7 |
Waste treatment plants, total | 15,586 | 392,300.3 | 56,366.5 | 327,372.3 | 8,561.5 |
As at 04 September 2015