| 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). r = Revised result. | |||||
| Landfills | 1,027 | 43,751.9 | 8,490.3 | 34,766.3 | 495.4 |
| Landfill construction1 | 346 | 10,796.9 | - | 10,796.9 | - |
| Thermal waste treatment plants | 156 | 25,023.4 | 1,538.5 | 22,265.9 | 1,218.9 |
| Combustion plants with energy recovery | 488 | 21,750.1 | 2,891.6 | 17,663.8 | 1,194.7 |
| Chemical-physical treatment plants | 386 | 7,082.6 | 2,295.3 | 4,317.6 | 469.8 |
| Soil treatment plants | 109 | 3,993.4 | 27.1 | 3,940.0 | 26.3 |
| Biological treatment plants | 1,200 | 15,263.3 | 2,002.8 | 13,217.4 | 43.1 |
| Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 52 | 3,744.4 | 21.1 | 3,691.5 | 31.9 |
| Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,200 | 514.4 | - | 510.7 | 3.7 |
| Shredding plants and scrap shears | 728 | 15,884.4 | 530.4 | 14,846.7 | 507.2 |
| Sorting plants | 987 | 25,120.7 r | 219.6 | 24,067.9 r | 833.2 |
| Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 320 | 1,041.0 | 10.6 | 956.1 | 74.2 |
| Other treatment plants2 | 1,008 | 29,198.0 | 2,961.7 | 24,202.1 | 2,034.2 |
| Construction and demolition waste treatment plants3 | 2,557 | 71,237.2 | - | 71,237.2 | - |
| Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes3 | 493 | 15,320.5 | - | 15,320.5 | - |
| Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 16 | 26,249.8 | 26,249.8 | - | - |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,781 | 101,383.4 | 2,851.5 | 97,812.9 | 718.9 |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 22 | 2,902.6 | 170.7 | 2,485.2 | 246.7 |
| Waste treatment plants, total | 13,876 | 420,258.0 r | 50,261.1 | 362,098.7 r | 7,898.3 |
As at 20 May 2021