| 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: Including sewage sludge in degester with CO-Digestion and waste oil recycling plants. - = No figures (exactly zero). | |||||
| Landfills | 1,108 | 46,613.1 | 12,169.6 | 33,802.5 | 640.9 |
| Landfill construction1 | 378 | 11,418.0 | - | 11,418.0 | - |
| Thermal waste treatment plants | 157 | 25,294.8 | 1,751.1 | 21,919.6 | 1,624.1 |
| Combustion plants with energy recovery | 601 | 22,442.0 | 3,916.1 | 17,188.4 | 1,337.6 |
| Chemical-physical treatment plants | 495 | 6,958.8 | 2,099.3 | 4,407.8 | 451.7 |
| Soil treatment plants | 113 | 3,766.3 | 214.4 | 3,518.7 | 33.2 |
| Biological treatment plants | 1,256 | 15,612.8 | 2,010.8 | 13,499.9 | 102.1 |
| Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 55 | 3,947.9 | 52.1 | 3,820.1 | 75.6 |
| Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,274 | 429.4 | - | 424.9 | 4.5 |
| Shredding plants and scrap shears | 734 | 14,806.5 | 605.6 | 13,602.8 | 598.1 |
| Sorting plants | 1,113 | 26,170.8 | 386.6 | 25,181.0 | 603.2 |
| Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 338 | 1,020.9 | 15.6 | 943.9 | 61.4 |
| Other treatment plants2 | 957 | 27,673.7 | 2,729.5 | 23,004.6 | 1,939.6 |
| Construction and demolition waste treatment plants | 2,870 | 69,654.2 | - | 69,654.2 | - |
| Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes | 527 | 14,782.8 | - | 14,782.8 | - |
| Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 17 | 24,346.9 | 24,346.9 | - | - |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,813 | 99,147.1 | 2,843.9 | 95,397.3 | 905.8 |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 22 | 2,928.8 | 193.2 | 2,433.5 | 302.1 |
| Waste treatment plants, total | 14,828 | 417,314.8 | 53,334.8 | 355,300.0 | 8,680.0 |
As at 02 March 2018