| 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 tonnes | ||||
| 1: Landfill construction is counted as a separate facility. 2: Including sewage sludge in digester with Co-Digestion and waste oil recycling plants. 3: Results of the previous year. - = No figures (exactly zero). | |||||
| Landfills | 999 | 39,756.4 | 7,406.0 | 31,796.6 | 553,8 |
| Landfill construction1 | 323 | 10,168.7 | - | 10,168.7 | - |
| Thermal waste treatment plants | 155 | 25,493.6 | 1,583.0 | 22,974.0 | 936.5 |
| Combustion plants with energy recovery | 481 | 22,088.9 | 3,091.8 | 17,871.8 | 1,122.4 |
| Chemical-physical treatment plants | 390 | 7,711.6 | 2,558.2 | 4,709.5 | 444.0 |
| Soil treatment plants | 103 | 3,987.5 | 28.9 | 3,861.1 | 7.6 |
| Biological treatment plants | 1,190 | 16,132.0 | 2,239.2 | 13,829.5 | 63.2 |
| Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 50 | 3,591.2 | 26.9 | 3,531.2 | 33.1 |
| Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,125 | 452.7 | - | 448.8 | 3.9 |
| Shredding plants and scrap shears | 758 | 16,303.5 | 646.7 | 14,983.1 | 673.7 |
| Sorting plants | 957 | 24,973.6 | 476.0 | 23,668.8 | 828.8 |
| Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 306 | 987.6 | 13.7 | 912.0 | 61.9 |
| Other treatment plants2 | 1,017 | 29,236.2 | 3,103.1 | 24,067.0 | 2,066.1 |
| Construction and demolition waste treatment plants3 | 2,640 | 75,253.9 | - | 75,253.9 | - |
| Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes3 | 469 | 14,115.4 | - | 14,115.4 | - |
| Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 14 | 27,728.2 | 27,728.2 | - | - |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,663 | 93,675.9 | 1,737.0 | 91,187.6 | 751.2 |
| Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 20 | 3,173.8 | 214.2 | 2,728.5 | 231.1 |
| Waste treatment plants, total | 13,660 | 414,740.6 | 50,852.9 | 356,110.4 | 7,777.2 |
As at 29 March 2023