| 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 | 1,005 | 41,434.4 | 6,869.4 | 34,185.2 | 379.8 |
| Landfill construction1 | 331 | 11,309.5 | - | 11,309.5 | - |
| Thermal waste treatment plants | 154 | 25,275.2 | 1,540.9 | 22,646.1 | 1,088.2 |
| Combustion plants with energy recovery | 483 | 21,847.4 | 3,325.2 | 17,430.8 | 1,091.4 |
| Chemical-physical treatment plants | 380 | 7,243.0 | 2,515.4 | 4,289.9 | 437.7 |
| Soil treatment plants | 106 | 3,775.3 | 13.1 | 3,747.8 | 14.4 |
| Biological treatment plants | 1,192 | 15,370.3 | 1,855.4 | 13,443.7 | 71.2 |
| Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 49 | 3,679.5 | 25.7 | 3,609.6 | 44.2 |
| Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,167 | 464.3 | - | 460.0 | 4.3 |
| Shredding plants and scrap shears | 739 | 15,859.5 | 548.3 | 14,801.3 | 510.0 |
| Sorting plants | 970 | 24,556.5 | 363.5 | 23,408.6 | 784.4 |
| Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 312 | 1,038.4 | 35.5 | 940.7 | 62.2 |
| Other treatment plants2 | 1,009 | 29,129.5 | 2,886.8 | 24,043.6 | 2,199.1 |
| Construction and demolition waste treatment plants | 2,640 | 75,253.9 | - | 75,253.9 | - |
| Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes | 469 | 14,115.4 | - | 14,115.4 | - |
| Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 14 | 27,110.3 | 27,110.3 | - | - |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,703 | 96,613.6 | 2,232.2 | 93,782.3 | 599.1 |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 21 | 3,017.4 | 220.1 | 2,569.9 | 227.4 |
| Waste treatment plants, total | 13,744 | 417,093.4 | 49,541.7 | 360,083.3 | 7,513.4 |
As at 29 April 2022