Waste management Waste treatment plants 2022

Waste treatment plants 2022
Type of plantWaste treatment
plants, total
Total inputOf which
wastes produced
on site
wastes delivered by
domestic
producers
foreign
producers
number1,000 t
1: Landfill construction is counted as a separate facility.
2: Including sewage sludge in digester with Co-Digestion and waste oil recycling plants.
- = No figures (exactly zero).
Landfills1,00139,302.27,190.531,471.8639.9
Landfill construction133110,339.5- 10,339.5-
Thermal waste treatment plants15924,579.41,499.122,113.6966.7
Combustion plants with energy recovery47221,080.22,799.217,196.71,084.3
Chemical-physical treatment plants3857,448.62,610.84,386.6451.2
Soil treatment plants1053,771.915.13,701.255.5
Biological treatment plants1,19615,751.63,083.712,595.772.1
Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants483,436.119.33,384.632.2
Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles1,074335.4- 331.44.0
Shredding plants and scrap shears77115,067.3462.813,972.1632.4
Sorting plants94323,291.5338.222,075.1878.3
Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment307895.212.9830.451.8
Other treatment plants21,02428,732.32,867.723,818.22,046.5
Construction and demolition waste treatment plants2,68072,898.7- 72,898.7-
Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes45314,513.4- 14,513.4-
Plants for the disposal of mining wastes1327,491.427,491.4- -
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites2,70791,323.41,704.188,768.2851.1
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites202,995.8208.12,581.5206.2
Waste treatment plants, total13,689403,253.950,303.0344,978.87,972.1

As at 27 February 2024

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