| 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. 3: Results of the previous year. - = No figures (exactly zero). | |||||
| Landfills | 1,082 | 46,094.3 | 11,579.6 | 33,879.6 | 635.2 |
| Landfill construction1 | 377 | 11,255.7 | - | 11,255.7 | - |
| Thermal waste treatment plants | 156 | 25,119.4 | 1,623.7 | 22,019.1 | 1,476.6 |
| Combustion plants with energy recovery | 551 | 22,747.9 | 3,917.2 | 17,449.7 | 1,381.0 |
| Chemical-physical treatment plants | 466 | 6,611.7 | 2,275.2 | 3,896.9 | 439.7 |
| Soil treatment plants | 110 | 3,823.2 | 224.4 | 3,578.6 | 20.1 |
| Biological treatment plants | 1,242 | 15,819.3 | 2,239.2 | 13,522.9 | 57.1 |
| Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 52 | 3,823.0 | 43.8 | 3,749.7 | 29.5 |
| Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,257 | 540.5 | - | 536.5 | 4.0 |
| Shredding plants and scrap shears | 744 | 15,579.5 | 462.2 | 14,557.0 | 560.3 |
| Sorting plants | 1,103 | 26,108.7 | 303.1 | 25,074.3 | 731.4 |
| Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 337 | 1,033.2 | 8.8 | 952.7 | 71.7 |
| Other treatment plants2 | 828 | 27,527.4 | 3,155.5 | 22,280.4 | 2,091.5 |
| Construction and demolition waste treatment plants3 | 2,870 | 69,954.2 | - | 69,954.2 | - |
| Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes3 | 527 | 14,782.8 | - | 14,782.8 | - |
| Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 17 | 27,445.5 | 27,445.5 | - | - |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,737 | 95,363.2 | 3,299.1 | 91,147.7 | 916.4 |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 22 | 3,031.8 | 177.9 | 2,576.2 | 277.7 |
| Waste treatment plants, total | 14,625 | 417,337.8 | 56,811.1 | 351,819.2 | 8,707.5 |
As at 02 March 2018