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 digester with Co-Digestion and waste oil recycling plants. - = No figures (exactly zero). | |||||
Landfills | 1,001 | 39,302.2 | 7,190.5 | 31,471.8 | 639.9 |
Landfill construction1 | 331 | 10,339.5 | - | 10,339.5 | - |
Thermal waste treatment plants | 159 | 24,579.4 | 1,499.1 | 22,113.6 | 966.7 |
Combustion plants with energy recovery | 472 | 21,080.2 | 2,799.2 | 17,196.7 | 1,084.3 |
Chemical-physical treatment plants | 385 | 7,448.6 | 2,610.8 | 4,386.6 | 451.2 |
Soil treatment plants | 105 | 3,771.9 | 15.1 | 3,701.2 | 55.5 |
Biological treatment plants | 1,196 | 15,751.6 | 3,083.7 | 12,595.7 | 72.1 |
Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 48 | 3,436.1 | 19.3 | 3,384.6 | 32.2 |
Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,074 | 335.4 | - | 331.4 | 4.0 |
Shredding plants and scrap shears | 771 | 15,067.3 | 462.8 | 13,972.1 | 632.4 |
Sorting plants | 943 | 23,291.5 | 338.2 | 22,075.1 | 878.3 |
Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 307 | 895.2 | 12.9 | 830.4 | 51.8 |
Other treatment plants2 | 1,024 | 28,732.3 | 2,867.7 | 23,818.2 | 2,046.5 |
Construction and demolition waste treatment plants | 2,680 | 72,898.7 | - | 72,898.7 | - |
Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes | 453 | 14,513.4 | - | 14,513.4 | - |
Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 13 | 27,491.4 | 27,491.4 | - | - |
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,707 | 91,323.4 | 1,704.1 | 88,768.2 | 851.1 |
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 20 | 2,995.8 | 208.1 | 2,581.5 | 206.2 |
Waste treatment plants, total | 13,689 | 403,253.9 | 50,303.0 | 344,978.8 | 7,972.1 |
As at 27 February 2024